Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
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Articles | Volume 32, issue 2
Articles | Volume 32, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-32-131-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-32-131-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 32, issue 2
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15 May 2025
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Multifractality of climate networks

Adarsh Jojo Thomas, Jürgen Kurths, and Daniel Schertzer

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This letter aims to synergistically combine multifractals and climate network theory to better understand geophysical processes. Multifractals quantify their own variability and intermittency across a wide range of scales, while climate networks reveal their own long-range nonlinear dependencies at the observational scale. This novel methodology is introduced in the context of the Indian Monsoon, highlighting the multifractality of climate networks and showing how to upscale them.
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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 to upscale precipitation climate networks to study the Indian summer monsoon and to analyze strong dependencies between spatial regions, which change with changing scales.
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