The Building Blocks of Spatiotemporal Intermittency

We obtain a family of uniformly propagating hole-solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation which differ from the well-known Nozaki-Bekki holes. They describe the spatial organization and velocity of the dominant local structures in the spatiotemporal intermittent regime. We discuss the phenomenology of these intermittent states in terms of the properties of the local structures.