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24 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 24 Oct 2017

Fractal scaling analysis of groundwater dynamics in confined aquifers

Tongbi Tu, Ali Ercan, and M. Levent Kavvas

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Groundwater level fluctuations in confined aquifer wells with long observations exhibit site-specific fractal scaling behavior, and the underlying distribution exhibits either non-Gaussian characteristics, which may be fitted by the Lévy stable distribution, or Gaussian characteristics. The estimated Hurst exponent is highly dependent on the length and the specific time interval of the time series. The MF-DFA and MMA analyses showed that different levels of multifractality exist.
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