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Synchronization in a Pair of Thermally Coupled Rotating Baroclinic Annuli: Understanding Atmospheric Teleconnections in the Laboratory

The mathematical techniques used to analyse our experimental data are currently being applied to detect synchronised dynamics (atmospheric teleconnections) in the Earth’s atmosphere and to test the correctness of numerical models of the atmosphere (like those used in weather forecast) by scientists in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics sub-department in Oxford (Dr. Scott Osprey, Prof. Lesley Grey, Prof. Peter Read). Prof. Jürgen Kurths (University of Potsdam, Germany), a world-leader in synchronisation theory, mentioned in a media coverage article (APS-Physics - spotlighting exceptional research) that “This is a very well-performed experiment”.