We study the temporal correlations in the atmospheric variability by 14 meteorological stations around the globe, the variations of the daily maximum temperatures from their average values. We apply several methods that can systematically overcome possible nonstationarities in the data. We find that the persistence, characterized by the correlation C(s) of temperature variations separated by s days, approximately decays C(s)∼s-γ, with roughly the same exponent γ≅0.7 for all stations considered. The range of this universal persistence law seems to exceed one decade, and is possibly even larger than the range of the temperature series considered. © 1998 The American Physical Society.

Koscielny-Bunde, E., Bunde, A., Havlin, S., Roman, H., Goldreich, Y., Schellnhuber, H. (1998). Indication of a universal persistence law governing atmospheric variability. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 81(3), 729-732 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.729].

Indication of a universal persistence law governing atmospheric variability

Roman H. E.;
1998

Abstract

We study the temporal correlations in the atmospheric variability by 14 meteorological stations around the globe, the variations of the daily maximum temperatures from their average values. We apply several methods that can systematically overcome possible nonstationarities in the data. We find that the persistence, characterized by the correlation C(s) of temperature variations separated by s days, approximately decays C(s)∼s-γ, with roughly the same exponent γ≅0.7 for all stations considered. The range of this universal persistence law seems to exceed one decade, and is possibly even larger than the range of the temperature series considered. © 1998 The American Physical Society.
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Long range correlations of temperature fluctuations in the atmosphere.
English
1998
81
3
729
732
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Koscielny-Bunde, E., Bunde, A., Havlin, S., Roman, H., Goldreich, Y., Schellnhuber, H. (1998). Indication of a universal persistence law governing atmospheric variability. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 81(3), 729-732 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.729].
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