Climate Predictions: The Chaos and Complexity in Climate Models

Table 1

Kolmogorov complexity (KL and its maximum: KLM) values for the precipitation and air temperature time series for Belgrade and Novi Sad, in Serbia, obtained from climate simulations using different models.

Quantity	Measure	Model
		Global		Regional
		SINTEX-G	ECHAM5	Eta-POM	RegCM
Temperature	KL	0.176		0.207
(Belgrade)	KLM	0.326		0.331
Temperature	KL		0.241		0.251
(Novi Sad)	KLM		0.318		0.354
Precipitation	KL	0.705		0.671
(Belgrade)	KLM	0.834		0.793
Precipitation	KL		0.265		0.871
(Novi Sad)	KLM		0.289		0.935