GCMs are Consistent With Chaotic Response …
of equation systems that do not possess chaotic response.
Executive Summary
The original PDEs that describe the Rayleigh-Benard convection problem do not posses chaotic behavior. The chaotic response observed with Lorenz-like low-order models (LOM) obtained via mode expansions disappears whenever sufficient resolution is used in the numerical solution methods applied to the original PDEs.
The low order model of the Lorenz equations omits the terms that are responsible for interaction between smaller scales and the large scales. The very interactions that form the basis for invoking the turbulence analogy.
GCMs are consistent with the chaotic response obtained from incorrect low-order models (LOM) expansions of PDEs.
GCMs are consistent with the chaotic response obtained from incorrect solutions to ODEs and PDEs.
GCMs are consistent with the chaotic response observed whenever insufficient resolution is used with numerical solution methods.
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