CHAOS THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE ATMOSPHERE

Authors
ZENG XB PIELKE RA EYKHOLT R
Citation
Xb. Zeng et al., CHAOS THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE ATMOSPHERE, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74(4), 1993, pp. 631-644
Citations number
139
Journal title
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00030007
Volume
74
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
631 - 644
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-0007(1993)74:4<631:CTAIAT>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A brief overview of chaos theory is presented, including bifurcations, routes to turbulence, and methods for characterizing chaos. The paper divides chaos applications in atmospheric sciences into three categor ies: new ideas and insights inspired by chaos, analysis of observation al data, and analysis of output from numerical models. Based on the re view of chaos theory and the classification of chaos applications, sug gestions for future work are given.