The impact of the strength of negative (desynchronizing) global coupling (NGC) on the spatiotemporal dynamics of an electrochemical relaxation oscillator is studied numerically with a prototypical model, the electro-oxidation of hydrogen in the presence of poisons. The results are compared with recent experiments. The NGC has a destabilizing effect on the homogeneous oscillations. Both, in theo...

Reflectance spectra may show very different and interesting shapes. The most interesting may be connected to Evans holes. Model calculations to reproduce this effect were done applying model dielectric function functions. When a weak oscillator appears within the frequency region of a strong one (i.e. between its TO and LO frequencies), its LO-mode frequency shifts towards higher wavenumbers. A...

El Niño events owe their name to their tendency to be locked to the seasonal cycle. A simple explanation is proposed here for the locking of the peak of ENSO’s basin-scale warming to the end of the calendar year. The explanation is based on incorporating a seasonally varying coupled ocean–atmosphere instability strength into the delayed oscillator mechanism for the ENSO cycle. It is shown that ...