As an example, the TSI sunspot cycles certainly do not show in the temperature data as any kind
of stochastic resonance, and it barely shows up as a Planck response: http://contextearth.com/2013/10/04/climate-variability-and-inferring-global-warming/
The mechanism
of stochastic resonance provides a way to shift the singularity in the complex plane
While noise is often understood as an obstacle to a signal carrying a message, the phenomenon
of stochastic resonance indicates cases where the presence of white noise (that is, randomness) actually helps amplify the signal.
Not exact matches
What I was reminded
of though is something along the lines
of the hypothesis
of a very weak signal /
stochastic -
resonance idea, where «noise» and a very weak «signal» could combine (similar to some
of the D - O hypotheses out there).
Some unknown natural forcing exists with a period
of 1470 yrs, and the climate system is subject to
stochastic resonance during glacials.
As Richard Alley has shown in a couple
of papers, the ice core data
of DO events are entirely consistent with
stochastic resonance — which is not chaos but arises from a simple threshold process («flicking
of a switch») in the presence
of noise.
Note that
stochastic resonance is a mechanism in the full meaning
of the word because it allows to get large effect from a small amplitude perturbation.»
(El Nino et al is possibly not modellable in principle beyond predicting statistics
of ocean weather:
Stochastic resonance.)
My feeling on the latter, is that solar magnetic cycles affect far - UV / stratospheric / jetstream patterns and the long - term heat storage
of the oceans; and that the former shorter cycles may be a
stochastic resonance phenomenon entrained in the long term pattern.