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Daily rainfall and temperature data from 47 locations across Nigeria for the 36-year period 1979–2014 were treated to time series analysis technique to investigate some nonlinear trends in rainfall and temperature data. Some quantifiers such as Lyapunov exponents, correlation dimension, and entropy were obtained for the various locations. Positive Lyapunov exponents were obtained for the time series of mean daily rainfall for all locations in the southern part of Nigeria while negative Lyapunov exponents were obtained for all locations in the Northern part of Nigeria. The mean daily temperature had positive Lyapunov exponent values (0.35–1.6) for all the locations. Attempts were made in reconstructing the phase space of time series of rainfall and temperature.
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Fuwape, I.A., Ogunjo, S.T., Oluyamo, S.S. et al. Spatial variation of deterministic chaos in mean daily temperature and rainfall over Nigeria. Theor Appl Climatol 130, 119–132 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-016-1867-x
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