Does determinism imply caos in hydrological variables?

Abstract

In this paper we present several hydrological time series from Argentina that include, evapotranspiration, precipitation, and stream flow. We survey previous results and apply the 0-1 test for chaos to classify the sequences as regular or chaotic. Previous studies have shown evidence of chaos in several observables from hydrology using the traditional phase space reconstruction method and the computation of Lyapunov exponents. The 0-1 test for chaos can be used as a first step to identify the type of time series, that later can be subjected to the more detailed analysis of the phase space reconstruction. Assuming that the systems that generated these time series are deterministic, the 0-1 test for chaos classifies all of them as chaotic

Keywords

• Hydrology
• Time series
• 0-1 test for chaos
• Evapotranspiration
• Precipitation