Abstract
A statistic, the BV (bred vector) dimension, is introduced to measure the effective local finite-time dimensionality of a spatiotemporally chaotic system. It is shown that the Earth’s atmosphere often has low BV dimension, and the implications for improving weather forecasting are discussed.
- Received 10 January 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5878
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