Fractal Analysis of Tide Gauge Data

Abstract

Weather and climate systems have low dimensional attractors. A consistent feature of weather and climate data is that they are aperiodic and their deviations from periodicity cannot be explained by conventional linear models of time series analysis. It is therefore essential that the nature of the sea level change is analyzed and modelled in order to assess the changes from one coastline to other or from the changes taking place in one ocean from the other neighboring oceans. In this study the approach to analyze and visualize such a comparison is done through calculating the fractal dimension of the time series on annual averages of mean sea level variations for different stations in four countries representing two different oceans regionally.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010927

Entities

People

  • N. K. Indira

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Computer Simulations
  • Numbers
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Real Numbers
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Simulations
  • Technical Information Centers

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Polar and Arctic Studies