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Much of our information on climatic evolution during the past million years comes from the time series describing the isotope record of deep-sea cores. A major task of climatology is to identify, from this apparently limited amount of information, the essential features of climate viewed as a dynamic system. Using the theory of nonlinear dynamic systems we show how certain key properties of climate can be determined solely from time series data.
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Nicolis, C., Nicolis, G. Is there a climatic attractor?. Nature 311, 529–532 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/311529a0
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