q-triplet for Brazos River discharge: The edge of chaos? Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 Elsevier B.V. We study the daily discharge data of Brazos River in Texas, USA, from 1900 to 2017, in terms of concepts drawn from the non-extensive statistics recently introduced by Tsallis. We find that the Brazos River discharge indeed follows non-extensive statistics regarding equilibrium, relaxation and sensitivity. Besides being the first such finding of a full-fledged q-triplet in hydrological data with possible future impact on water resources management, the fact that all three Tsallis q-triplet values are remarkably close to those of the logistic map at the onset of chaos opens up new questions towards a deeper understanding of the Brazos River dynamics, that may prove relevant for hydrological research in a more general sense.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Stosic, T., Stosic, B., & Singh, V. P.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Stosic, Tatijana||Stosic, Borko||Singh, Vijay P

publication date

  • April 2018