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Water Level Dynamics Of The North American Great Lakes: Nonlinear Scaling And Fractional Bode Analysis Of A Self-Affine Time Series, Jeffrey Ralph Smigelski
Water Level Dynamics Of The North American Great Lakes: Nonlinear Scaling And Fractional Bode Analysis Of A Self-Affine Time Series, Jeffrey Ralph Smigelski
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Time series that exhibit multiple scaling properties in the frequency domain are common in natural systems (e.g., temperature through geologic time). NOAA verified hourly water level data ranging from 20 to 30 years in duration for nine stations in the North American Great Lakes is converted to the frequency domain using a complex discrete fast Fourier transform (FFT) and then expressed as a power spectrum in terms of frequency versus power. To quantify power law scaling behavior, a scaling exponent (β) is determined by fitting a power function to a log-log plot of frequency (f) or …