A preliminary investigation on the topology of Chinese climate networks

摘要: Complex networks have been studied across many fields of science in recent years. In this paper, we give a brief introduction networks, then follow the original works by Tsonis et al (2004, 2006) starting with data surface temperature from 160 Chinese weather observations to investigate topology climate networks. Results show that network exhibits characteristic regular, almost fully connected which means most nodes case same number links, and so-called super very large links do not exist there. other words, though former results extratropical region provide property scale-free they still different local fine structures inside. We also detect community using Bayesian technique; effective communities is about four network. More importantly, technique approaches divisions connections physics dynamics; division into may highlight aspects dynamics variability.