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Aperiodicity in the time series of Indian summer rainfall for 116 years is analysed using the phase space approach. The question whether a low-dimensional strange attractor is associated with the chaotic behaviour of the monsoon system is investigated. It is found that a strange attractor of dimensionality around 5·1 exists and the system has 12 relevant degrees of freedom.
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Satyan, V. Is there an attractor for the Indian summer monsoon?. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 97, 49–52 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861626
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