Distributed chaos of the atmospheric tracers

Abstract

It is shown, using results of numerical simulations, atmospheric experiments and observations with natural trace-gases (ozone, carbon dioxide etc.), that the spatio-temporal distributed chaos can provide good quantitative description of the statistical properties of the passive scalar tracers in the atmosphere from the atmospheric surface layer up to the stratosphere. Related properties of the solar radiation transmittance in the atmosphere have been also briefly discussed as well as analogous properties of the tracers in Jupiter's atmosphere.