Predictability in Unstable, Continuous Systems

Abstract

My long-term goal in this project is to improve our ability to predict environmental conditions using dynamical models. The central objective of my research in this project is to understand the mathematical and physical connections between the bred-growing-mode technique recently developed for numerical weather prediction, the Lyapunov vectors and exponents of dynamical systems theory, and the local instability theories of geophysical fluid dynamics. My intent is to gain insight into fundamental mathematical and physical aspects of predictability in unstable (irregular, chaotic) continuous systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA613952

Entities

People

  • Roger M. Samelson

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmosphere Models
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • Mixing
  • Models
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Remote Sensing
  • Universities
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers