Abstract: By interpreting transitions between atmospheric flow regimes as a deterministic rather than a stochastic phenomenon, new insight is gained into the phase-space characteristics of these transitions. The identification of ...

Abstract: The dynamics of large-scale atmospheric flow is characterized by both noisy, diffusive behavior, stemming mainly from small-scale, high-frequency atmospheric processes and by more structured, nondiffusive aspects, coming ...

Abstract: Several different ways of constructing optimal bases for efficient dynamical modeling are compared: empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs), optimal persistence patterns (OPPs), and principal interaction patterns (PIPs). ...

Abstract: Adopting the viewpoint that atmospheric flow regimes can be associated with steady states, this work investigates the hypothesis that regime transitions in deterministic atmosphere models are related to the existence of ...