Lorenz-96 Weather Model
Atmospheric chaos on a circular ring of K weather variables
Parameters
Variables K:
20
Forcing F:
8
Speed:
2
x
Reset
~0.0
Est. Lyapunov exponent
Lorenz-96 model
(1996): K variables arranged in a circle, each representing a coarse weather state at a latitude.
dX
k
/dt = (X
k+1
−X
k−2
)X
k−1
− X
k
+
F
F < 4:
stable fixed point
F ≈ 4–6:
periodic waves
F > 6:
fully chaotic
Watch wave-like structures rotate chaotically around the ring. Each cell is colored by its current value — warm colors = high, cool = low.