Absence of determinism in El Niño Southern Oscillation

¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 200 West Kawili Street, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA. pbinder@hawaii.edu

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

|June 13, 2002

Abstract:

We perform two direct determinism tests on the El Niño Southern Oscillation index monthly average series. The results indicate that, for timescales over 1 month, the series does not exhibit determinism, an essential feature of chaos.

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