Prediction of water amount that will enter the reservoirs in the following month is of vital
importance especially for semi-arid countries like Turkey. Climate projections emphasize …

As a UNESCO biosphere, Lake Urmia is a shallow hypersaline lake which is facing a rapid
water surface degradation. Evaporation from the surface of the Lake, as a physical process …

Natural phenomena usually seem irregular at the first glance, however, with changing the
scale and the noise they can become regular and therefore it is possible to predict their …

Introduction: Dynamic nature of hydrological phenomena and the limited availability of
appropriate mathematical tools caused the most previous studies in this field led to the …

Introduction Measuring complexity and ways to reduce it in organizations and decision-
making processes has become one of the topics of the day. The chaos theory was proposed …

Temperature is one of the essential quantities which affect the agriculture, economy, survival
of animal and plant species. Turkey, located in the interconnection of Europe and Asia …

Considering the dynamic and nonlinear nature of river flow, it is expected that the river flow
time series is obtained from a deterministic chaotic system. Since that the time series …

Introduction One of the main issues in hydrology and water resources is investigation of river
flow. Due to innovations and capabilities of the chaos theory, nowadays, chaos analyses are …

Evaporation is one of the important phenomena of the hydrological cycle and its prediction is
essential for water management, planning and conservation. Since chaos theory deals with …

Chaos theory studies complex and nonlinear dynamic systems and phenomena that their
behavior seems to be stochastic and irregular at first glance, but in fact these systems are …