26 research outputs found
Improved linear response for stochastically driven systems
The recently developed short-time linear response algorithm, which predicts
the average response of a nonlinear chaotic system with forcing and dissipation
to small external perturbation, generally yields high precision of the response
prediction, although suffers from numerical instability for long response times
due to positive Lyapunov exponents. However, in the case of stochastically
driven dynamics, one typically resorts to the classical fluctuation-dissipation
formula, which has the drawback of explicitly requiring the probability density
of the statistical state together with its derivative for computation, which
might not be available with sufficient precision in the case of complex
dynamics (usually a Gaussian approximation is used). Here we adapt the
short-time linear response formula for stochastically driven dynamics, and
observe that, for short and moderate response times before numerical
instability develops, it is generally superior to the classical formula with
Gaussian approximation for both the additive and multiplicative stochastic
forcing. Additionally, a suitable blending with classical formula for longer
response times eliminates numerical instability and provides an improved
response prediction even for long response times
A simple closure approximation for slow dynamics of a multiscale system: nonlinear and multiplicative coupling
Multiscale dynamics are ubiquitous in applications of modern science. Because
of time scale separation between relatively small set of slowly evolving
variables and (typically) much larger set of rapidly changing variables, direct
numerical simulations of such systems often require relatively small time
discretization step to resolve fast dynamics, which, in turn, increases
computational expense. As a result, it became a popular approach in
applications to develop a closed approximate model for slow variables alone,
which both effectively reduces the dimension of the phase space of dynamics, as
well as allows for a longer time discretization step. In this work we develop a
new method for approximate reduced model, based on the linear
fluctuation-dissipation theorem applied to statistical states of the fast
variables. The method is suitable for situations with quadratically nonlinear
and multiplicative coupling. We show that, with complex quadratically nonlinear
and multiplicative coupling in both slow and fast variables, this method
produces comparable statistics to what is exhibited by an original multiscale
model. In contrast, it is observed that the results from the simplified closed
model with a constant coupling term parameterization are consistently less
precise
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A new framework for climate sensitivity and prediction: a modelling perspective
The sensitivity of climate models to increasing CO2 concentration and the climate response at decadal time-scales are still major factors of uncertainty for the assessment of the long and short term effects of anthropogenic climate change. While the relative slow progress on these issues is partly due to the inherent inaccuracies of numerical climate models, this also hints at the need for stronger theoretical foundations to the problem of studying climate sensitivity and performing climate change predictions with numerical models. Here we demonstrate that it is possible to use Ruelle's response theory to predict the impact of an arbitrary CO2 forcing scenario on the global surface temperature of a general circulation model. Response theory puts the concept of climate sensitivity on firm theoretical grounds, and addresses rigorously the problem of predictability at different time-scales. Conceptually, these results show that performing climate change experiments with general circulation models is a well defined problem from a physical and mathematical point of view. Practically, these results show that considering one single CO2 forcing scenario is enough to construct operators able to predict the response of climatic observables to any other CO2 forcing scenario, without the need to perform additional numerical simulations. We also introduce a general relationship between climate sensitivity and climate response at different time scales, thus providing an explicit definition of the inertia of the system at different time scales. This technique allows also for studying systematically, for a large variety of forcing scenarios, the time horizon at which the climate change signal (in an ensemble sense) becomes statistically significant. While what we report here refers to the linear response, the general theory allows for treating nonlinear effects as well. These results pave the way for redesigning and interpreting climate change experiments from a radically new perspective
A simple linear response closure approximation for slow dynamics of a multiscale system with linear coupling
Many applications of contemporary science involve multiscale dynamics, which
are typically characterized by the time and space scale separation of patterns
of motion, with fewer slowly evolving variables and much larger set of faster
evolving variables. This time-space scale separation causes direct numerical
simulation of the evolution of the dynamics to be computationally expensive,
due both to the large number of variables and the necessity to choose a small
discretization time step in order to resolve the fast components of dynamics.
In this work we propose a simple method of determining the closed model for
slow variables alone, which requires only a single computation of appropriate
statistics for the fast dynamics with a certain fixed state of the slow
variables. The method is based on the first-order Taylor expansion of the
averaged coupling term with respect to the slow variables, which can be
computed using the linear fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We show that, with
simple linear coupling in both slow and fast variables, this method produces
quite comparable statistics to what is exhibited by a complete two-scale model.
The main advantage of the method is that it applies even when the statistics of
the full multiscale model cannot be simulated due to computational complexity,
which makes it practical for real-world large scale applications