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Definitions of Climate and Climate Change Under Varying External Conditions : Volume 5, Issue 1 (10/06/2014)

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Title: Definitions of Climate and Climate Change Under Varying External Conditions : Volume 5, Issue 1 (10/06/2014)  
Author: Werndl, C.
Volume: Vol. 5, Issue 1
Language: English
Subject: Science, Earth, System
Collections: Periodicals: Journal and Magazine Collection, Copernicus GmbH
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2014
Publisher: Copernicus Gmbh, Göttingen, Germany
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Description: Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC1A 2AE London, UK. Commonly, definitions of climate are endorsed where the external conditions are held constant. This paper argues that these definitions risk being empirically void because in reality the external conditions vary. As a consequence, analogous definitions for varying external conditions are explored with help of the recently developed theory of non-autonomous dynamical systems, and the similarities and differences between the cases of constant and varying external conditions are discussed. It is argued that there are analogous definitions for varying external conditions which are preferable to the definitions where the external conditions are held constant. In this context, a novel definition is proposed (namely, climate as the distribution over time under a regime of varying external conditions), which is argued to be promising.

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Definitions of climate and climate change under varying external conditions

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