The Climate Variability Research department investigates the predictability and natural variability of climate. The research covers a wide range of topics:
Work of our staff is organised in a number of projects. Results are reported in refereed and popular publications.
Other results:
The figure shows a graphical representation of a special collection of states (known as a 'strange attractor') of the chaotic Lorenz system. Click here to see an animation (Netscape only) which illustrates the sensitivity of this system to the initial conditions.

Greet de Graaf / Brigitta
Kamphuis
Updated on July 24, 2002