Hasselmann's program revisited: The analysis of stochasticity in deterministic climate models

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K. Hasselmann proposed in the paper on ``Stochastic climate models (1976) to improve deterministic models for the ``climate (slow variables) by incorporating the influence of the ``weather (fast variables) in the form of random noise. In this interesting paper, the author recasts this program in the language of modern probability theory as follows: While the transition from a deterministic general circulation model to a deterministic statistical dynamical model is facilitated by the method of averaging, stochasticity comes into the picture when studying the error made in the averaging procedure, provided that the fast variables are sufficiently ``chaotic. The study of normal deviations from the averaged system is described by the central limit theorem, while the study of large deviations from the average (events happening on an exponential time scale) is done by the theory of large deviations. It seems that the latter can be particularly appealing to meteorologists, as one can, for example, describe the ``hopping of the climate between its various local attractors due to the forcing by chaotic weather. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0961.00022].




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