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Comparative multifractal analysis of methane gas concentration time series in India and regions within India

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In the present study GOSAT CH4 has been used to analyze the methane gas concentration in India over the eight years from 2010 to 2017. The data have been analyzed using the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis technique. Two different geographical regions within India have been selected and CH4 data for those regions are also analyzed. The generalized Hurst exponents for India and the two regions are 1.27, 0.74 and 0.91, which are significantly high from their shuffled data counterparts i.e. 0.50, 0.51 and 0.51 respectively. This finding reveals that methane gas concentration over time show multifractal nature which in turn establishes the presence of long-range temporal correlations in the data. The width of the Multifractal spectrum for India and the two regions are found to be 0.76, 1.38 and 1.01 respectively. This result shows that strength of correlation is different for the two regions selected, which we suggest may be due to the different methane emission process of the considered regions. Comparison of the results with that of shuffled data signify that the correlation is purely due to the methane production dynamics and not a result of mere statistics.

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Robert J. Parker and Hartmut Boesch are funded via the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NE/R016518/1 and NE/N018079/1). We thank the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, National Institute for Environmental Studies and the Ministry of Environment for the GOSAT data and their continuous support as part of the Joint Research Agreement. This research used the ALICE High Performance Computing Facility at the University of Leicester for the GOSAT retrievals.

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  1. Department of Physics, Bethune College, 181, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, 700006, India

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  2. National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Robert Parker & Hartmut Boesch

  3. Earth Observation Science, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Robert Parker & Hartmut Boesch

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Bhoumik, G., Parker, R. & Boesch, H. Comparative multifractal analysis of methane gas concentration time series in India and regions within India. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. 88, 197–204 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-022-00076-3

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