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Title: Patterns of temporal scaling of groundwater level fluctuation.

Authors: Yu, Xue; Ghasemizadeh, Reza; Padilla, Ingrid Y; Kaeli, David; Alshawabkeh, Akram

Published In J Hydrol (Amst), (2016 May)

Abstract: We studied the fractal scaling behavior of groundwater level fluctuation for various types of aquifers in Puerto Rico using the methods of (1) detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to examine the monofractality and (2) wavelet transform maximum modulus (WTMM) to analyze the multifractality. The DFA results show that fractals exist in groundwater fluctuations of all the aquifers with scaling patterns that are anti-persistent (1 < β < 1.5; 1.32 ± 0.12, 18 wells) or persistent (β > 1.5; 1.62 ± 0.07, 4 wells). The multi-fractal analysis confirmed the need to characterize these highly complex processes with multifractality, which originated from the stochastic distribution of the irregularly-shaped fluctuations. The singularity spectra of the fluctuation processes in each well were site specific. We found a general elevational effect with smaller fractal scaling coefficients in the shallower wells, except for the Northern Karst Aquifer Upper System. High spatial variability of fractal scaling of groundwater level fluctuations in the karst aquifer is due to the coupled effects of anthropogenic perturbations, precipitation, elevation and particularly the high heterogeneous hydrogeological conditions.

PubMed ID: 31866691 Exiting the NIEHS site

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