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The 116-year rainfall record of San Jose, California, includes series of unusually dry periods, two to eight years long, and excessive wet periods, one to three years long. These consecutive dry and wet sequences appear random and unrelated. The entropy concept was used to define: (a) the relationship of drought and flood sequences to the average rainfall; (b) the relationship among selected drought sequences; (c) the relationship among selected flood sequences; (d) the drought and flood patterns; and (c) the worth of the information transfer in the rainfall record. This analysis is important in understanding the ongoing 5-year California drought.
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Krstanovic, P.F., Singh, V.P. (1992). Transfer of Information in Monthly Rainfall Series of San Jose, California. In: Singh, V.P., Fiorentino, M. (eds) Entropy and Energy Dissipation in Water Resources. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2430-0_8
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