“Geometry from a Time Series”, N. H. Packard, J. P. Crutchfield, J. D. Farmer, R. S. Shaw1980-09 (science)⁠:

It is shown how the existence of low-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems describing turbulent fluid flow might be determined experimentally.

Techniques are outlined for reconstructing phase-space pictures from the observation of a single coordinate of any dissipative dynamical system, and for determining the dimensionality of the system’s attractor.

These techniques are applied to a well-known simple 3-dimensional chaotic dynamical system.