TY - INPR A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij A1 - Feudel, Ulrike T1 - Characterizing strange nonchaotic attractors N2 - Strange nonchaotic attractors typically appear in quasiperiodically driven nonlinear systems. Two methods of their characterization are proposed. The first one is based on the bifurcation analysis of the systems, resulting from periodic approximations of the quasiperiodic forcing. Secondly, we propose th characterize their strangeness by calculating a phase sensitivity exponent, that measures the sensitivity with respect to changes of the phase of the external force. It is shown, that phase sensitivity appears if there is a non-zero probability for positive local Lyapunov exponents to occur. T3 - NLD Preprints - 2 Y1 - 2007 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1221 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13405 ER -