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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sivakumar, Bellie
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht : Springer, [2016]
Subjects
Hydrology > Mathematical models.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789048125524
9789048125517
Physical Description1 online resource

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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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