Tamás Bódai
Young Scientist Fellow of IBS & Research Professor of PNU
Email: bodai@pusan.ac.kr
Phone: +82 (0) 51-510-7637
Research interests
- Forced response of the climate system, with particular view towards teleconnections, extremes, nonlinearities and tipping
- Snapshot/pullback attractors, response theory, fluctuation-dissipation relations, climate sensitivity, application to geoengineering assessment
- Statistics and predictability of extremes in deterministic and stochastic systems
- Critical transitions, transient chaos, nonergodicity of the climate system
Education
| 2009 | PhD in Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeem |
| 2004 | MEng, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology |
Work Experience
| 2017 | 2019 | Postdoc, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading |
| 2013 | 2016 | Postdoc, Theoretical Meteorology, University of Hamburg |
| 2011 | 2013 | Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
| 2010 | 2011 | Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest |
| 2008 | 2010 | Analyst Engineer, Green Ocean Energy, Aberdeen |
Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
| 2019- | Young Scientist Fellowship of the IBS |
| 2011-2013 | Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems |
| 2004 | ERASMUS Studentship, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol |
| 2003/2004 | Studentship (Köztársasági ösztöndíj) awarded by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture for achievements in education and research. (A 0.8% of the undergraduate student population in Hungary may be awarded in each academic year for a period of 10 months.) |
Publications
Journal articles
22. Hu, G., Bódai, T. and Lucarini, V. (2019) Effects of subgrid-scale parametrizations to extreme value statistics. Chaos (accepted, promoted as Editor’s Pick)
21. Lucarini, V. and Bódai, T. (2019) Transitions across melancholia states in a climate model: Reconciling the deterministic and stochastic points of view, Physical Review Letters 122, 158701. (selected to be a PRL Editors’ Suggestion, around 1 in 6 letters receive such a highlight, and Featured in Physics, APS’s journal for synthesis pieces), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.158701
20. Bódai, T., Lucarini, V., and Lunkeit, F. (2018) Critical assessment of geoengineering strategies using response theory, Earth System Dynamics Discussions, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2018-3021
19. Bódai, T. and Franzke, C. (2017) Predictability of fat-tailed extremes, Physical Review E 96, 032120. (12 pages), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.032120
18. Gálfi, V. M., Bódai, T., and Lucarini, V. (2017) Convergence of extreme value statistics in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic atmospheric model, Complexity vol. 2017, Article ID 5340858. (20 pages), https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5340858
17. Drótos, G., Bódai, T., and Tél, T. (2017) On the importance of the convergence to climate attractors, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 226, 2031–2038 (invited article in a special issue dedicated to Prof Ulrike Feudel on the occasion of her 60th birthday), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70045-7
16. Lucarini, V. and Bódai, T. (2017) Edge states in the climate system: Exploring global instabilities and critical transitions, Nonlinearity 30(7), R32-R66 (invited article by Bruno Eckhardt; open access; most downloaded article of all those published in Nonlinearity in 2017; selected for the journal’s 2017 Highlights Collection)
15. Drótos, G., Bódai, T., and Tél, T. (2016) Quantifying nonergodicity in nonautonomous dissipative dynamical systems: An application to climate change, Physical Review E 94, 022214. (16 pages), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.022214
14. Bódai, T. (2015) Predictability of threshold exceedances in dynamical systems, Physica D 313, 37-50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2015.08.007
13. Bódai, T. and Narakorn Srinil (2015) Performance analysis and optimization of a box-hull wave energy converter concept, Renewable Energy 81, 551-565, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.03.040
12. Drótos, G., Bódai, T., and Tél, T. (2015) Probabilistic concepts in a changing climate: A snapshot attractor picture, Journal of Climate 28, 3275-3288, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00459.1
11. Bódai, T., Lucarini, V., Lunkeit, F., and Boschi, R. (2014) Global instability in the Ghil-Sellers model, Climate Dynamics 44(11-12), 3361-3381, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2206-5
10. Bódai, T., Altmann, E. G., and Endler, A. (2013) Stochastic perturbations in open chaotic systems: random versus noisy maps. Phys. Rev. E 87, 042902. (12 pages), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042902
9. Bódai, T., Károlyi, Gy., and Tél, T. (2013) Driving a conceptual model climate by different processes: Snapshot attractors and extreme events. Phys. Rev. E 87, 022822. (10 pages), http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022822
8. Bódai, T. and Tél, T. (2011) Annual variability in a conceptual climate model: Snapshot attractors, hysteresis in extreme events, and climate sensitivity. Chaos 22, 023110. (11 pages) (article featured as a published multimedia highlight in the journal’s news letter), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3697984
7. Bódai, T., Károlyi, Gy., and Tél, T. (2011) A chaotically driven model climate: Extreme events and snapshot attractors. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 18, 573–580. (open access), https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-18-573-2011
6. Bódai, T., Károlyi, Gy., and Tél, T. (2011) Fractal snapshot components in chaos induced by strong noise. Physical Review E 83, 046201. (9 pages), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.046201
5. Bódai, T. and Wiercigroch, M. (2011) Acoustic ray stability for long range sound speed profile transition scenarios. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 21(1), 177-194, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127411028350
4. Bibó, A., Károlyi, Gy., and Bódai, T. (2009) Fly-wheel model exhibits the hither and thither motion of a bouncing ball. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 44(8), 905-912, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2009.06.006
3. Bódai, T., Fenwick, A. J., and Wiercigroch, M. (2009) New graphical techniques for studying acoustic ray stability. Journal of Sound and Vibration 324(3-5), 850-860, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2009.01.049
2. Bódai, T., Fenwick, A. J., and Wiercigroch, M. (2009) Ray stability for background sound speed profiles with transition. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 19(9), 2953-2964, http://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127409024578
1. Bódai, T., Fenwick, A. J., and Wiercigroch, M. (2008) Ray chaos in underwater acoustics and its application. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 18(5), 1579-1587. (figure in colour selected for the front page graphics of the printed journal), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127408021191
Book chapter
Bódai, T. (2017) Extreme value analysis in dynamical systems: Two case studies. In: Nonlinear and Stochastic Climate Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 392—429.