Recurrence Plot Analysis and its Application to Teleconnection Patterns

The recurrence plot analysis provides us a way to visualize and quantify the dynamical systems behavior over the time. The construction of a recurrence plot (RP) from a time series begins with the determination of the trajectory of the system through phase-space. Seven different measures are extracted from the RP. These measures are obtained from diagonal and vertical structures of the RP. Hence, the aim of this article is to find new characteristics underneath the dynamical behavior of teleconnection patterns. Those climate patterns are represented as time series. Not only does this method help us to find more characteristics of the system than classical ones, but it also could be used with other phenomena that can be represented as time series