The area of a Dyck path.
This is the number of complete squares in the integer lattice which are below the path and above the x-axis. The 'half-squares' directly above the axis do not contribute to this statistic.
1. Dyck paths are bijection with area sequences $(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ such that $a_1 = 0, a_{k+1} \leq a_k + 1$.
2. The generating function $\mathbf{D}_n(q) = \sum_{D \in \mathfrak{D}_n} q^{\operatorname{area}(D)}$ satisfy the recurrence $$\mathbf{D}_{n+1}(q) = \sum q^k \mathbf{D}_k(q) \mathbf{D}_{n-k}(q).$$
3. The area is equidistributed with St000005The bounce statistic of a Dyck path. and St000006The dinv of a Dyck path.. Pairs of these statistics play an important role in the theory of $q,t$-Catalan numbers.

The bounce path determined by an integer composition.

This map is recursively defined as follows.
The unique empty path of semilength $0$ is sent to itself.
Let $D$ be a Dyck path of semilength $n > 0$ and decompose it into $1 D_1 0 D_2$ with Dyck paths $D_1, D_2$ of respective semilengths $n_1$ and $n_2$ such that $n_1$ is minimal. One then has $n_1+n_2 = n-1$.
Now let $\tilde D_1$ and $\tilde D_2$ be the recursively defined respective images of $D_1$ and $D_2$ under this map. The image of $D$ is then defined as $1 \tilde D_2 0 \tilde D_1$.

The composition corresponding to a binary word.
Prepending $1$ to a binary word $w$, the $i$-th part of the composition equals $1$ plus the number of zeros after the $i$-th $1$ in $w$.
This map is not surjective, since the empty composition does not have a preimage.