Complexity and Climate
- 2 April 1999
- journal article
- special viewpoint
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5411) , 105-107
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5411.105
Abstract
The climate that we experience results from both ordered forcing and chaotic behavior; the result is a system with characteristics of each. In forecasting prospective climate changes for the next century, the focus has been on the ordered system's responses to anthropogenic forcing. The chaotic component may be much harder to predict, but at this point it is not known how important it will be.Keywords
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