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A M Feigin1, Y I Molkov, D N Mukhin
1Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.
Abstract:
The importance of the investigation of nonlinear dynamical properties (NDPs) of the atmospheric photochemical systems (PCSs) was demonstrated in ref. 1 and 2 (A. M. Feigin and I. B. Konovalov, J. Geophys. Res., 1996, 101 (D20), 26038; 1. B. Konovalov, A. M. Feigin and A. Y. Mukhina, J. Geophys. Res., 1999, 104 (D3), 3669). The only known way to study NDPs of any natural dynamical system (including atmospheric PCSs) is to construct a mathematical model of the system. The key point here is adequacy of the NDPs of the constructed model to the system observed. We propose a new approach to construction of such an adequate model for systems manifesting nonstationary chaotic behaviour and describe an algorithm based exclusively on nonlinear dynamical analysis of the observed time series (TS) without invoking any a priori knowledge about the properties of the system observed. Potentialities of the algorithm are demonstrated with the aid of a computer model of the mesospheric PCS. The duration of the "observed" TS is limited so that the system demonstrates only one--chaotic--type of behaviour, without any bifurcations throughout the observed TS. The proposed algorithm enabled us to make a correct prognosis of bifurcation sequences and calculate probabilities to reveal, at the time instant of interest, predicted regimes of the system's behaviour for times much greater than the length of the initial TS.
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