Nonlinear Dynamics of Soil Moisture at Climate Scales: 2. Chaotic Analysis Academic Article

abstract

• The soil moisture balance equation over large spatial territories is analyzed at seasonal time scales. Local recycling of precipitation and dynamic effects of soil moisture in the generation and modification of mesoscale circulations are explicitly included in the parameterization which also incorporates time delays in the above effects. It is shown that the dynamics of the equation is quite complex, being capable of exhibiting fixed point, limit cycle, and chaotic type of behavior. The implications of this dynamics are important for the interpretation and modeling of hydrologie phenomena. Copyright 1991 by the American Geophysical Union.

authors

• Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio

published proceedings

• Water Resources Research

author list (cited authors)

• RodriguezIturbe, I., Entekhabi, D., Lee, J., & Bras, R. L.

citation count

• 41

complete list of authors

• Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Ignacio||Entekhabi, Dara||Lee, Jae‐Soo||Bras, Rafael L

publication date

• August 1991

publisher

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)  Publisher

published in

• Water Resources Research  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/91wr01036

start page

• 1907

end page

• 1915

volume

• 27

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91wr01036