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- Title
Multiscale Complexity Analysis of Rainfall in Northeast Brazil.
- Authors
Silva, Antonio Samuel Alves da; Barreto, Ikaro Daniel de Carvalho; Cunha-Filho, Moacyr; Menezes, Rômulo Simões Cezar; Stosic, Borko; Stosic, Tatijana
- Abstract
In this work, we analyze the complexity of monthly rainfall temporal series recorded from 1962 to 2012, at 133 gauge stations in the state of Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. To this end, we employ the modified multiscale entropy method (MMSE), which is well suited for short time series, to analyze the rainfall regularity across a wide range of temporal scales, from one month to one year. We identify the temporal scales that distinguish rainfall regularity in the inland semiarid Sertão region, the transitional inland Agreste region, and the coastal, tropical humid Zona da Mata region, by comparing the results for stations across the study area and performing statistical significance tests. Our work contributes to the establishment of multiscale methods based on information theory in climatological studies.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO (Brazil); TIME series analysis; ARID regions
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 22, p3213
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w13223213