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Volume 63, Number 4, August 2003
Page(s) 498 - 504
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DOI 10.1209/epl/i2003-00550-y

DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2003-00550-y
Europhys. Lett., 63 (4) , pp. 498-504 (2003)

Drifts induced by multiplicative red noise with application to climate

P. D. Sardeshmukh, C. Penland and M. Newman

NOAA-CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center - Boulder, CO, USA


(Received 22 May 2003; accepted in final form 6 June 2003)

Abstract
It is well known that moment equations for a multivariate linear system with multiplicative red noise are not closed: equations for low-order moments involve higher-order moments. Further, the probability density for this system is complicated enough that analytic expressions for the moments are difficult to obtain by direct integration. We introduce a closure approximation so that the vector mean of such systems may be estimated with high accuracy. The approximation is accurate for red noises with a wide range of timescales, and approaches the correct limits for both very small and very large correlation times. We include an application relevant to climate modeling and comment on the implications for numerical-model investigations of global warming.

PACS
05.10.Gg - Stochastic analysis methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.).
02.50.Ey - Stochastic processes.
02.50.-r - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics.

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