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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2793
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2793
27 Sep 2024
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Multifractality of Climate Networks

Adarsh Jojo Thomas, Jürgen Kurths, and Daniel Schertzer

Abstract. Geophysical fields are extremely variable over a wide range of space-time scales. More specifically, they are intermittent in the sense that the strongest fluctuations are increasingly concentrated on sparser and sparser fractions of the space-time domain. Multifractals have been developed to analyse and simulate across scales such multiscale intermittency, while climate networks can detect and characterise extreme event synchronisation. In contrast to multifractal analysis, climate networks are usually generated at a given observation scale, despite displaying complex structures over larger scales and likely exhibiting similar complexity at smaller scales.

In this letter, we present how to overcome this dichotomy of approaches by analysing in detail the effects of increasing the observation scale for climate networks, as allowed by empirical data, i.e. how do they upscale. This must be understood as a preliminary step to be able to downscale them, including for practical applications such as urban geosciences that require analysis and simulation of intermittent fields at very high resolution. This is one of the reasons why we are using precipitation to illustrate our multifractal climate network approach.

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Adarsh Jojo Thomas, Jürgen Kurths, and Daniel Schertzer

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We have developed a systematic approach to study the climate system at multiple scales using climate networks, which have been previously used to study correlations between time series in space at only a single scale. This new approach is used here to upscale precipitation climate networks to study the Indian Monsoon and analyse strong dependencies between spatial regions, which change with changing scale.