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Regular and irregular patterns in nature are often observed in close association. Clouds are cited as typical chaotic structures on the one hand, but can also be observed as highly regular bands with well defined wavelength. Satellite pictures sometimes reveal regular hexagonal cells of mesoscale convection with diameters up to one hundred km, while most of the other large scale cloud structures can be characterized only by their fractal dimension. A similar coexistence of regular and chaotic features can be observed in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Well defined anticyclonic eddies with approximately constant separation are observed at certain latitudes while other latitudes exhibit cloudbands in seemingly chaotic motions (Smith et al., 1979).
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Busse, F.H., Sieber, M. (1991). Regular and Chaotic Patterns of Rayleigh-Benard Convection. In: Seydel, R., Schneider, F.W., Küpper, T., Troger, H. (eds) Bifurcation and Chaos: Analysis, Algorithms, Applications. International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik / Série Internationale d’Analyse Numérique, vol 97. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7004-7_8
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