Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7375926 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We study the daily discharge data of Brazos River in Texas, USA, from 1900 to 2017, in terms of concepts drawn from the non-extensive statistics recently introduced by Tsallis. We find that the Brazos River discharge indeed follows non-extensive statistics regarding equilibrium, relaxation and sensitivity. Besides being the first such finding of a full-fledged q-triplet in hydrological data with possible future impact on water resources management, the fact that all three Tsallis q-triplet values are remarkably close to those of the logistic map at the onset of chaos opens up new questions towards a deeper understanding of the Brazos River dynamics, that may prove relevant for hydrological research in a more general sense.
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Authors
Tatijana Stosic, Borko Stosic, Vijay P. Singh,