Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2009-03-16
EPL (Europhysics Letters), 88 (2009) 60004
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
Extended version
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/88/60004
It is shown that global climate exhibits chaotic response to solar forcing variability in a vast range of timescales: from annual to multi-millennium. Unlike linear systems, where periodic forcing leads to periodic response, nonlinear chaotic response to periodic forcing can result in exponentially decaying broad-band power spectrum with decay rate T_e equal to the period of the forcing. It is shown that power spectrum of a reconstructed time series of Northern Hemisphere temperature anomaly for the past 2,000 years has an exponentially decaying broad-band part with T_e = 11 yr, i.e. the observed decay rate T_e equals the mean period of the solar activity. It is also shown that power spectrum of a reconstruction of atmospheric CO_2 time fluctuations for the past 650,000 years, has an exponentially decaying broad-band part with T_e = 41,000 years, i.e. the observed decay rate T_e equals the period of the obliquity periodic forcing. A possibility of a chaotic solar forcing of the climate has been also discussed. These results clarify role of solar forcing variability in long-term global climate dynamics (in particular in the unsolved problem of the glaciation cycles) and help in construction of adequate dynamic models of the global climate.
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