• DocumentCode
    2435069
  • Title

    Investigating chaos in ozone layer depletion at Pakistan air space

  • Author

    Zai, M. Ayub Khan Yousuf ; Hussain, Muhammad Awais ; Ansari, M.R.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    11-13 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    696
  • Lastpage
    699
  • Abstract
    Phenomena like, atmospheric pollution, temperature variability, global warming, or ozone layer depletion (OLD) may be analyzed for forecasts etc. by solving the primitive dynamic equations along with the continuity and energy ones. The environmental variables actually observed are the consequences of thousand of events, some of which may be poorly defined or imperfectly understood. However, such atmospheric models of meteorological phenomena are simplistic in their nature, in the sense of largely hiding the character of nature as it dasiareallypsila is. This failure of reaching an exact solution and the fact that environmental phenomena nearly always include random components prompt us to leave the purely deterministic approach and invoke instead pseudo-randomness or randomness (stochasticity). In globally coupled dynamical systems, the law of large numbers is violated but the central limit theorem holds. The ozone reduction is predictable and models can be used to provide predictions of OLD due to human activities. One may argue that the consistency resulting from model application - such as the ability to describe the OLD and its seasonal variations, the reproducibility of predictions, and reasonable consistency between different models - could be a property of the models rather than of the OLD. For instance consider the Milankovitch forcing arising from changes in the distribution of solar radiation over the Earth because of variations in the Earth´s orbit. If we turn to the past record of OLD we see that changes in ozone as a result of the increase of CFCs are also driven by changes in the radiative regime at the top of the atmosphere. This study attempts time series modeling via fluctuating dynamics of ozone layer for the study of OLD which has not been attempted earlier. Our investigations produce quantitative results that describe the relation of synoptic meteorological conditions to regional OLD. In this communication analysis of bispectrum properties, corr- elation dimension and lyapunov exponent for fluctuating OLD phenomenon have been carried out in order to test the existence of some degree of chaos in discrete time series. This analysis, based on the study of correlation properties, can be considered as a first contribution in understanding the fluctuating dynamics of OLD phenomenon in order to obtain a coherent representation of this complex dynamical system.
  • Keywords
    air pollution; atmospheric temperature; chaos; global warming; ozone; stratosphere; time series; OLD phenomenon; Pakistan air space; atmospheric pollution; atmospheric temperature variability; chaos; correlation dimension; global warming; globally coupled dynamical systems; lyapunov exponent; ozone layer depletion; Atmospheric modeling; Chaos; Earth; Global warming; Load forecasting; Meteorology; Pollution; Predictive models; Temperature; Weather forecasting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2009. RAST '09. 4th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3627-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3628-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RAST.2009.5158280
  • Filename
    5158280