ESRL/PSD Seminar Series
PSD Flash Seminar
Where does Randomness Come From and Does the Climate Really Care?
Cecile Penland
NOAA/ESRL/PSD Weather and Climate Physics Branch
ABSTRACT
Many people think they recognize randomness when the see it, but would be hard pressed to define it. In this seminar, I will discuss the dynamical basis of a large class of stochastic systems and give an example. The example is the effect of a rapidly varying but spatially large climate pattern, the North Atlantic Oscillation, on the seasonal forecast of sea surface temperatures in a portion of the main development region of Atlantic hurricanes.
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