  The Ott-Antonsen ansatz shows that, for certain classes of distribution of
the natural frequencies in systems of $N$ globally coupled Kuramoto
oscillators, the dynamics of the order parameter, in the limit $N\to \infty$,
evolves, under suitable initial conditions, in a manifold of low dimension.
This is not possible when the frequency distribution, continued in the complex
plane, has an essential singularity at infinite; this is the case for example,
of a Gaussian distribution. In this work we propose a simple approximation
scheme that allows to extend also to this case the representation of the
dynamics of the order parameter in a low dimensional manifold. Using as a
working example the Gaussian frequency distribution, we compare the dynamical
evolution of the order parameter of the system of oscillators, obtained by the
numerical integration of the $N$ equations of motion, with the analogous
dynamics in the low dimensional manifold obtained with the application of the
approximation scheme. The results confirm the validity of the approximation.
The method could be employed for general frequency distributions, allowing the
determination of the corresponding phase diagram of the oscillator system.
