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Science 2 April 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5411, pp. 105 - 107
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5411.105
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Complexity and Climate

D. Rind

The climate that we experience results from both ordered forcing and chaotic behavior; the result is a system with characteristics of each. In forecasting prospective climate changes for the next century, the focus has been on the ordered system's responses to anthropogenic forcing. The chaotic component may be much harder to predict, but at this point it is not known how important it will be.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA. E-mail: drind{at}giss.nasa.gov

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