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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:A4L-B

Session:

Number:235

Inferring interdependencies in climate networks constructed at inter-annual, intra-season and longer time scales

J. Ignacio Deza,  Marcelo Barreiro,  Cristina Masoller,  

pp.235-238

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.235

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Summary:
We study global climate networks constructed at various time-scales by means of ordinal time series analysis of monthly-averaged surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies. To quantify climate interdependencies, we compute the mutual information from the anomaly values and from its symbolic, ordinal-based representation. The ordinal analysis allows to identify changes in the topology of the network when varying the pattern, covering a short, intra-season time scale (e.g., of a few months) to a longer, inter-annual time scale (e.g., of a few years). We report changes in the network topology with the various time-scales and present evidence of correlations between geographical regions that occur at certain time scales only.

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