Physics – Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Scientific paper
2001-11-13
Stoch. Dyn. 2:327-356 (2002)
Physics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
24 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of the "Second Workshop on Stochastic Climate Models", Chorin, 9-11 July, 2001
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0219493702000455
We consider simple stochastic climate models, described by slowly time-dependent Langevin equations. We show that when the noise intensity is not too large, these systems can spend substantial amounts of time in metastable equilibrium, instead of adiabatically following the stationary distribution of the frozen system. This behaviour can be characterized by describing the location of typical paths, and bounding the probability of atypical paths. We illustrate this approach by giving a quantitative description of phenomena associated with bistability, for three famous examples of simple climate models: Stochastic resonance in an energy balance model describing Ice Ages; hysteresis in a box model for the Atlantic thermohaline circulation; and bifurcation delay in the case of the Lorenz model for Rayleigh-B'enard convection.
Berglund Nils
Gentz Barbara
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