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. 2026 Jul 8;28(7):779. doi: 10.3390/e28070779
AESA Executive Water Management Agency of the State of Paraíba
CECP Complexity–entropy causality plane
H Water level in the elevation-storage context; normalized permutation entropy when written as H[P]
V Stored volume
V(H) Elevation-storage relation
ΔVt Storage change between two consecutive reports
δVt Daily normalized storage increment
D Embedding dimension
τ Ordinal delay
P={pi} Bandt-Pompe ordinal-pattern probability distribution
H[P] Normalized permutation entropy
C[P] Martín-Plastino-Rosso statistical complexity
E Euclidean distance from the CECP point (H,C) to (1,0)
W Sliding-window length in observations
s Sliding-window step in observations
O(W,s) Percentage overlap between consecutive sliding windows
f0 Fraction of exact zero or numerically zero storage increments
f+ Fraction of positive storage increments
ftie Fraction of embedding vectors containing tied values
Sr Sample-relative structural magnitude for reservoir r
Rr Interperiod CECP distance range for reservoir r
Mr Recent sliding-window mobility for reservoir r