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Is the North Atlantic Oscillation just a pink noise?

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  • Fernández, Isabel
  • Hernández, Carmen N.
  • Pacheco, José M.

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In this paper the authors address the problem of predictability for the NAO index series. The spectral analysis, completed with a bootstrap procedure, shows a rather featureless structure of the index. In other words, the actual time series could be a realisation of many different stochastic processes. An analysis of the Hurst exponent does suggest a slightly red noise as a model for the index, which is interpreted as the NAO being driven by meteorological noise. A nonlinear study of the series (embedding dimension, fractal correlation dimension and leading Lyapunov exponent) shows little predictive performance as well.

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  • Fernández, Isabel & Hernández, Carmen N. & Pacheco, José M., 2003. "Is the North Atlantic Oscillation just a pink noise?," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 323(C), pages 705-714.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:323:y:2003:i:c:p:705-714
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00056-6
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