Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2006-06-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
34 pages including 57 references; 12 figures; 2 tables; submitted to Physica A
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physa.2006.05.044
The shape and tails of partial distribution functions (PDF) for a climatological signal, i.e. the El Nino SOI and the turbulent nature of the ocean-atmosphere variability are linked through a model encompassing Tsallis nonextensive statistics and leading to evolution equations of the Langevin and Fokker-Planck type. A model originally proposed to describe the intermittent behavior of turbulent flows describes the behavior of the normalized variability for such a climatological index, for small and large time windows, both for small and large variability. This normalized variabil- ity distributions can be sufficiently well fitted with a chi-square-distribution. The transition between the small time scale model of nonextensive, intermittent process and the large scale Gaussian exten- sive homogeneous fluctuation picture is found to occur at above ca. a 48 months time lag. The intermittency exponent ($\kappa$) in the framework of the Kolmogorov log-normal model is found to be related to the scaling exponent of the PDF moments. The value of $\kappa$ (= 0.25) is in agreement with the intermittency exponent recently obtained for other atmospheric data.
Ausloos Marcel
Petroni Filippo
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