Butterflies, Black swans and Dragon kings: How to use the Dynamical Systems Theory to build a "zoology" of mid-latitude circulation atmospheric extremes?

Davide Faranda, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Pascal Yiou, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France and M. Carmen MC Alvarez-Castro, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy