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Porporato & Ridolfi 1997
Porporato, A. and Ridolfi, L. (1997). Nonlinear analysis of river flow time sequences. Water Resources Research 33: doi: 10.1029/97WR03535. issn: 0043-1397.

Within the field of chaos theory several methods for the analysis of complex dynamical systems have recently been proposed. In light of these ideas we study the dynamics which control the behavior over time of river flow, investigating the existence of a low-dimension deterministic component. The present article follows the research undertaken in the work of Porporato and Ridolfi <1996a> in which some clues as to the existence of chaos were collected. Particular emphasis is given here to the problem of noise and to nonlinear prediction. With regard to the latter, the benefits obtainable by means of the interpolation of the available time series are reported and the remarkable predictive results attained with this nonlinear method are shown.¿ 1997 American Geophysical Union

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Hydrology, Runoff and streamflow
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Water Resources Research
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