Revealing trends and persistent cycles of non-autonomous systems with autonomous operator-theoretic techniques
Gary Froyland (),
Dimitrios Giannakis,
Edoardo Luna and
Joanna Slawinska
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Gary Froyland: University of New South Wales
Dimitrios Giannakis: Dartmouth College
Edoardo Luna: University of Texas at Austin
Joanna Slawinska: Dartmouth College
Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-17
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Abstract An important problem in modern applied science is to characterize the behavior of systems with complex internal dynamics subjected to external forcings. Many existing approaches rely on ensembles to generate information from the external forcings, making them unsuitable to study natural systems where only a single realization is observed. A prominent example is climate dynamics, where an objective identification of signals in the observational record attributable to natural variability and climate change is crucial for making climate projections for the coming decades. Here, we show that operator-theoretic techniques previously developed to identify slowly decorrelating observables of autonomous dynamical systems provide a powerful means for identifying nonlinear trends and persistent cycles of non-autonomous systems using data from a single trajectory of the system. We apply our framework to real-world examples from climate dynamics: Variability of sea surface temperature over the industrial era and the mid-Pleistocene transition of Quaternary glaciation cycles.
Date: 2024
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