Effect of Trends on Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Precipitation Series

Table 1

The crossover times $s_x^{(n)}$ and the scaling exponent ${\alpha }^{(n)}$ of the original data.

	DFA1	DFA2	DFA3	DFA4	DFA5
${\alpha }_0^{(n)}$	0.6718	0.6263	0.6122	0.6318	0.6415
$s_{1x}^{(n)}$	84	98	146	234	274
${\alpha }_1^{(n)}$	1.1407	1.2772	1.3650	1.4857	1.4927
$s_{2x}^{(n)}$	406	556	704	892	965
${\alpha }_2^{(n)}$	0.1512	0.1419	0.1236	0.1263	0.1296