The theory of parallel climate realizations as a new framework for teleconnection analysis.

ABSTRACT: Teleconnections are striking features of the Earth climate system which appear as statistically correlated climate-related patterns between remote geographical regions of the globe. In a changing climate, however, the strength of teleconnections might change, and an appropriate characterization of these correlations and their change (more appropriate than detrending the time series) is lacking in the literature. Here we present a novel approach, based on the theory of snapshot attractors, corresponding in our context to studying parallel climate realizations. Imagining an ensemble of parallel Earth systems, instead of the single one observed (i.e., the real Earth), the ensemble, after some time, characterizes the appropriate probabilities of all options permitted by the climate dynamics, r

SUBMITTER: Herein M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363062 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature