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Applications to Other Hydrologic Data

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Following the early chaos studies mainly on rainfall and river flow, the concepts of chaos theory started to find applications in studies on other hydrologic data as well. Although such applications have been noticeably less when compared to those on rainfall and river flow, they have studied various types of hydrologic data. The data studied include rainfall-runoff, lake volume and level, sediment transport, groundwater, and soil moisture, among others. Further, while most of these studies have mainly focused on identification and prediction of chaos and, to some extent, investigation of scaling relationships, several other problems associated with the data have also been addressed. This chapter presents a review of the above studies, with particular focus on rainfall-runoff, lake volume and level, sediment transport, and groundwater. Examples are also provided to illustrate the applications to rainfall-runoff (i.e. runoff coefficient), sediment transport (i.e. flow discharge, suspended sediment concentration, and suspended sediment load), and groundwater (solute transport and arsenic contamination).

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  1. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  2. Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

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Sivakumar, B. (2017). Applications to Other Hydrologic Data. In: Chaos in Hydrology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2552-4_11

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