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Year of Publication:
1994
Journal Title:
Science
Journal Date:
Apr 1
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Volume:
264
Issue:
5155
Pages:
72-74
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ISBN Number:
0036-8075
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Accession Number:
ISI:A1994ND53600030
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Abstract:
The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle is modeled as a low-order chaotic process driven by the seasonal cycle. A simple model suggests that the equatorial Pacific ocean-atmosphere oscillator can go into nonlinear resonance with the seasonal cycle and that with strong enough coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere, the system may become chaotic as a result of irregular jumping of the ocean-atmosphere system among different nonlinear resonances. An analysis of a time series from an ENSO prediction model is consistent with the low-order chaos mechanism.
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