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Multifractal features and dynamical thresholds of temperature extremes in Bangladesh

  • Anxin Liu
  • , Zhihua Zhang
  • , James Crabbe
  • , Lipon Chandra Das
  • Shandong University
  • Beijing Normal University
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Chittagong

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Abstract

Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) can extract multi-scaling behavior andmeasure long-range correlations in climatic time series. In this study, with the help of multifractalDFA, we investigated the scaling behavior of daily minimum/maximum temperatures during theyears 1989–2019 from 34 meteorological stations in Bangladesh. We revealed spatial patterns, topographicimpacts and global warming impacts of long-range correlations embedded in small andlarge fluctuations in temperature time series. Meanwhile, we developed a multifractal DFA-basedalgorithm to dynamically determine thresholds to discriminate extreme and non-extreme eventsin climate systems and applied it to analyze the frequency and trends of temperature extremes in Bangladesh. Compared with widely-used percentile thresholds, the extreme climate events capturedin our algorithm are more reliable since they are determined dynamically by the climate system itself.
Original languageEnglish
Article number540
JournalFractal and Fractional
Volume7
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jul 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

  • Climate projections
  • Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools
  • Population Health
  • climate change
  • scaling behavior
  • thresholds of climate extremes
  • multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis
  • small and large fluctuations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Statistics and Probability

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