Nonlinear Dynamics, Poor Data, and What to Make of Them?

The analysis of univariate or multivariate time series provides crucial information to describe, understand, and predict variability in the geosciences. The discovery and implementation of a number of novel methods for extracting useful information from time series has recently revitalized this classical field of study. Considerable progress has also been made in interpreting the information so obtained in terms of dynamical systems theory.