Articles | Volume 29, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-133-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-133-2022
NPG Letters
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28 Mar 2022
NPG Letters |  | 28 Mar 2022

Control simulation experiment with Lorenz's butterfly attractor

Takemasa Miyoshi and Qiwen Sun

Video supplement

Control Simulation Experiment (CSE) with the Lorenz-63 model Takemasa Miyoshi and Qiwen Sun https://doi.org/10.5446/54893

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Short summary
The weather is chaotic and hard to predict, but the chaos implies an effective control where a small control signal grows rapidly to make a big difference. This study proposes a control simulation experiment where we apply a small signal to control nature in a computational simulation. Idealized experiments with a low-order chaotic system show successful results by small control signals of only 3 % of the observation error. This is the first step toward realistic weather simulations.