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Review article: Dynamical systems, algebraic topology and the climate sciences
Geosciences Department and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS and IPSL), École Normale Supérieure and PSL University, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA
Departments of Mathematics and of Finance, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BX, UK
Denisse Sciamarella
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Institut Franco-Argentin d'Études sur le Climat et ses Impacts (IFAECI) International Reseach Laboratory 3351 (CNRS – IRD – CONICET – UBA) C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75794 Paris CEDEX 16, France
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The problem of climate change is that of a chaotic system subject to time-dependent forcing, such as anthropogenic greenhouse gases and natural volcanism. To solve this problem, we describe the mathematics of dynamical systems with explicit time dependence and those of studying their behavior through topological methods. Here, we show how they are being applied to climate change and its predictability.
The problem of climate change is that of a chaotic system subject to time-dependent forcing,...
