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Indian summer monsoon seasonal rainfall for the period 1871–1986 over the meteorological subdivisions has been analysed using the method of deterministic chaos. It is shown that a strange attractor underlies the monsoon evolution in each subdivision. The dimensionality of the attractor and the number of key variables necessary to model the subdivisional dynamics have been determined.
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Satyan, V. Phase space analysis of Indian summer monsoon rainfall over subdivisions. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 98, 207–211 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02863245
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