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ENTROPY
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 613-630Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e12030613
Keywords
thermodynamics; entropy production; non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; Bayesian inference; Earth System Modelling
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The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate predictions for non-equilibrium states. We argue that this is because the MEP principle is an effective inference procedure that produces the best predictions from the available information. Since all Earth system processes are subject to the conservation of energy, mass and momentum, we argue that in practical terms the MEP principle should be applied to Earth system processes in terms of the already established framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, with the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium at the appropriate scales.
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