Not exact matches
These
systems are right on the boundary between stable, orderly
behaviour — such as a swinging pendulum — and the
unpredictable world of chaos, as exemplified by turbulence.
That the climate is main
unpredictable and that is
behaviour is best modelled as a chaotic
unpredictable system with small predictable perturbation.
«A dynamical
system such as the climate
system, governed by nonlinear deterministic equations (see Nonlinearity), may exhibit erratic or chaotic
behaviour in the sense that very small changes in the initial state of the
system in time lead to large and apparently
unpredictable changes in its temporal evolution.
This does not imply, however, that the
behaviour of non-linear chaotic
systems is entirely
unpredictable, contrary to what is meant by «chaotic» in colloquial language.»
Chaotic
systems have the characteristic that their short term
behaviour is
unpredictable, but that their long term
behaviour can be characterised.