Investigating chaos in river stage and discharge time series

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 414-415, Issue , 2012, Pages 108-117

  Khatibi, Rahman ^a   Sivakumar, Bellie ^b,c   Ghorbani, Mohammad Ali ^d   Kisi, Ozgur ^e   Koçak, Kasim ^f   Farsadi Zadeh, Davod ^d  

^a Consultant Mathematical Modeller ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^e ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chaos; Kizilirmak; Rating relationship; River discharge; River stage; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR; CHAOTIC SIGNAL; CORRELATION DIMENSIONS; DATA EMBEDDING; DIMENSIONALITY ANALYSIS; DIRECT IDENTIFICATIONS; DISCHARGE TIME; HYDROMETRIC STATIONS; KIZILIRMAK; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; LOCAL APPROXIMATION METHODS; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR SEARCH; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC METHODS; PHASE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SYSTEM RECONSTRUCTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHAOS THEORY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RATING; RIVERS; SEARCH ENGINES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LYAPUNOV METHODS;

ALGORITHM; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SIGNAL; TIME SERIES;

TURKEY;

EID: 84855192809     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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