Periodicities and irregularities of indices describing the daily pluviometric regime of the Fabra Observatory (NE Spain) for the years 1917–1999 |
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Authors: | X Lana M D Martínez C Serra A Burgueño |
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Institution: | (1) Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear (ETSEIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;(2) Departament de Física Aplicada (ETSAB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;(3) Departament de Meteorologia i Astronomia, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | Summary Several patterns of a daily pluviometric regime are obtained from an homogeneous set of daily rainfall recorded at the Fabra Observatory (NE Spain) for the period 1917–1999. Power spectral analyses of four annual pluviometric indices, determined from different daily rain amount percentiles, are performed. Periodicities of the quasi-biannual oscillation (QBO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and sunspot cycles are correlated in some cases with empirical spectral peaks of the indices exceeding Markov red-noise with a confidence level of 95%. Depending on the rainy day percentiles, a set of short periods (2.1–4.6 years), a second group of intermediate periods (5.5 and 9.2 years) and, finally, a third group of long periods of 11.8, 20.8 and 41.5 years can be distinguished. These periods are compared with those derived for other European and African emplacements. Additionally, the consecutive irregularity of every annual series is quantified by means of a concept similar to the entropy. |
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