Original Research Papers
Observational evidence that a feedback control system with proportional-integral-derivative characteristics is operating on atmospheric surface temperature at global scale
Authors:
- L. Mark W. LeggettEmail L. Mark W. Leggett
- David A. Ball
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.
- Year: 2020
- Volume: 72 Issue: 1
- Page/Article: 1717268
- DOI: 10.1080/16000870.2020.1717268
- Published on 1 Jan 2020
- Peer Reviewed