Some examples of negative feedback in the Earth climate system

• Authors: Olavi Kärner
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Temporal variability of daily time series for total solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere, the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) based global, hemispherical and zonal average temperature for the lower troposphere and stratosphere together with 5 surface air temperature data, measured at various meteorological stations have been studied by means of the structure function. From the growth rate of the structure function in the time interval between 32 and 4096 days it follows that the variability of the series represents an anti-persistent (AP) behavior. This property in turn shows a domination of negative feedback in the physical system generating the lower tropospheric temperature variability. Distribution of the increments over various ranges and correlations between them are calculated in order to determine the quantitative characteristics describing temporal variability.

Keywords

EN

Fluctuations; random processes; noise and Bm; 05.04a

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 190-208

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2005

online

1 - 6 - 2005

Contributors

author

Olavi Kärner

• Tartu Observatory, 61602, Tõravere, Estonia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/BF02475587