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| Titel |
Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis in examining scaling properties of the spatial patterns of soil water storage |
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A. Biswas, T. B. Zeleke, B. C. Si |
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Englisch
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| ISSN |
1023-5809
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In: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics ; 19, no. 2 ; Nr. 19, no. 2 (2012-03-27), S.227-238 |
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250014190
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/npg-19-227-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Knowledge about the scaling properties of soil water
storage is crucial in transferring locally measured fluctuations to larger
scales and vice-versa. Studies based on remotely sensed data have shown that
the variability in surface soil water has clear scaling properties (i.e.,
statistically self similar) over a wider range of spatial scales. However,
the scaling property of soil water storage to a certain depth at a field
scale is not well understood. The major challenges in scaling analysis for
soil water are the presence of localized trends and nonstationarities in the
spatial series. The objective of this study was to characterize scaling
properties of soil water storage variability through multifractal detrended
fluctuation analysis (MFDFA). A field experiment was conducted in a
sub-humid climate at Alvena, Saskatchewan, Canada. A north-south transect of
624-m long was established on a rolling landscape. Soil water storage was
monitored weekly between 2002 and 2005 at 104 locations along the transect.
The spatial scaling property of the surface 0 to 40 cm depth was
characterized using the MFDFA technique for six of the soil water content
series (all gravimetrically determined) representing soil water storage
after snowmelt, rainfall, and evapotranspiration. For the studied transect,
scaling properties of soil water storage are different between drier periods
and wet periods. It also appears that local controls such as site topography
and texture (that dominantly control the pattern during wet states) results
in multiscaling property. The nonlocal controls such as evapotranspiration
results in the reduction of the degree of multiscaling and improvement in
the simple scaling. Therefore, the scaling property of soil water storage is
a function of both soil moisture status and the spatial extent considered. |
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