Multifractal analysis of rainfall in coastal area in Pernambuco, Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i2.12424Keywords:
Rainfall; Climate change; Multifractal.Abstract
Global warming and climate change are the mayor concerns of scientists, engineers and policy makers because they affect every aspect of nature and human life. Rainfall and air temperature are the most important variables used to detect climate change, through the statistical analysis of set of indices that describe temperature and rainfall extremes. Over the last decades concepts and methods from complex system science were applied in analysis of hydrological data to describe variability of hydrological processes on multiple temporal and spatial scales. In this work we analyzed daily rainfall temporal series in Recife, Brazil (during the period from 1962 to 2019) using Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) in order to study long term correlations in subsets of small and large rainfall fluctuations. We calculated multifractal parameters (that quantify position of maximum, width and asymmetry of multifractal spectrum) which are related to different properties of rainfall fluctuations. By comparing the values of these parameters for two subperiods of 29 years, we found that after 1990, rainfall dynamics changed towards stronger persistency, weaker multifractality and decreased dominance of small fluctuations.
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