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Periodic Solutions in Low-Dimensional Climatic Models

Classic climatic models use constitutive laws without any response time. A more realistic approach to the natural processes governing climate dynamics must introduce response time for heat and radiation fluxes. Extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT) is a good thermodynamical framework for introducing nonclassical constitutive laws. In the present study EIT has been used to analyze a Budyko鈥揝ellers one-dimensional energybalance model developed by G. R. North. The results present self-sustained periodic oscillations when the response time is greater than a critical value. The high-frequency (few kiloyears) damped and nondamped oscillations obtained can be related to abrupt climatic changes without any variation in the external forcing of the system

漏 Journal of Climate, 1999, vol. 12, n煤m. 2, p. 325-333

American Meteorological Society

Author: Pujol i Sagar贸, Toni
Llebot, Josep Enric
Date: 1999
Abstract: Classic climatic models use constitutive laws without any response time. A more realistic approach to the natural processes governing climate dynamics must introduce response time for heat and radiation fluxes. Extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT) is a good thermodynamical framework for introducing nonclassical constitutive laws. In the present study EIT has been used to analyze a Budyko鈥揝ellers one-dimensional energybalance model developed by G. R. North. The results present self-sustained periodic oscillations when the response time is greater than a critical value. The high-frequency (few kiloyears) damped and nondamped oscillations obtained can be related to abrupt climatic changes without any variation in the external forcing of the system
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ISSN: 0894-8755 (versi贸 paper)
1520-0442 (versi贸 electr貌nica)
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/7694
Language: eng
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Collection: Reproducci贸 digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<0325:PSILDC>2.0.CO;2
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Is part of: 漏 Journal of Climate, 1999, vol. 12, n煤m. 2, p. 325-333
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Subject: Climatologia
Climatology
Canvis clim脿tics
Climatic changes
Title: Periodic Solutions in Low-Dimensional Climatic Models
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