Observational evidence that a feedback control system with proportional-integral-derivative characteristics is operating on atmospheric surface temperature at global scale

L. Mark W. Leggett; David A. Ball

doi:10.1080/16000870.2020.1717268

Observational evidence that a feedback control system with proportional-integral-derivative characteristics is operating on atmospheric surface temperature at global scale

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Volume 72 (2020): Issue 1

By: L. Mark W. Leggett and David A. Ball

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|Jan 2020

Abstract

Here we provide statistically significant observational evidence that a feedback control system moderating atmospheric temperature is presently operating coherently at global scale. Further, this control system is of a sophisticated type, involving the corrective feedback not only of a linear error term but also its derivative and its integral. This makes it of the same type as the most widely used control system developed by humans, the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control system.

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Keywords:

global surface temperature,

control system,

time series analysis,

empirical

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