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Chaos in Hydrology Bridging Determinism and Stochasticity /

This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems. This is done through a systematic presentation of: (1) information on the salient characteristics of hydrologic syst...

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Main Author: Sivakumar, Bellie. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Subjects:
Hydrogeology.
Hydrology.
Civil engineering.
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
Geotechnical engineering.
Hydrology/Water Resources.
Civil Engineering.
Complex Systems.
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.
Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2552-4
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part A: Hydrologic Systems and Modeling
  • Characteristics of hydrologic systems and processes
  • Conventional linear stochastic time series methods
  • Modern nonlinear time series methods
  • Part B: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
  • Fundamentals
  • Identification of chaos
  • Prediction of chaos
  • Part C: Applications of chaos theory in hydrology
  • Overview
  • Applications to rainfall data
  • Applications to river flow data
  • Applications to other hydrologic data
  • Studies on related problems. Part D: A look ahead
  • Current status
  • The future
  • References
  • Index.

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