A universal model to characterize different multi-fractal behaviors of daily temperature records over China

Guangxing Lin and Zuntao Fu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 2, 573-579

Abstract: The multi-fractal properties of surface air temperature over China are studied through Multi-fractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA). It is shown that there indeed exists the multi-fractal phenomenon in daily surface air temperature time series, reflecting a great deal of fluctuations at various time scales. The multi-fractal properties can be characterized very well by a universal generalized binomial multiplicative cascade model with only two parameters a and b. For different stations, the width of singularity spectrum f(α) is different, indicating different strengths of temperature multi-fractal behavior from station to station.

Keywords: Multi-fractal behavior; Multi-fractal detrended fluctuation analysis; Singularity spectrum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.10.011

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