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1Lab for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
How the nonstationarity in the atmosphere turbulent vertical velocity series affects its organization degree of multiscale structures is quantified by permutation entropy (PE) and complexity-entropy causality plane (CECP), and marked PE and CECP differences are detected between the nonstationary and stationary series. We find that the value of PE is lower in the nonstationary vertical velocity series than the stationary counterparts. Both types of series locate near the region of the higher complexity value in the CECP as chaotic systems, but the PE is smaller and the complexity degree is larger in the nonstationary series than the stationary with smaller time delays. Due to the close relationship between PE and the multiscale Shannon entropy, we show that the PE and CECP can be also taken as an indicator to quantify the different organization degrees of the multiscale structures existing between the stationary and nonstationary surface vertical velocity records.
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