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Entropy 2012, 14, 945-957; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS entropy ISSN 1099-4300 /journal/entropy Article Applying Multiscale Entropy to the Complexity Analysis of Rainfall-Runoff Relationships Chien-Ming Chou Department of Design for Sustainable Environment, MingDao University, 369 Wen-Hua Road, Peetow, Changhua 52345, Taiwan; E-Mail: jamin@.tw; Tel.: +886-4-887-6660; Fax: +886-4-888-6927 Received: 14 March 2012; in revised form: 6 May 2012 / Accepted: 11 May 2012 / Published: 16 May 2012 Abstract: This paper presents a novel framework for the complexity analysis of rainfall, runoff, and runoff coefficient (RC) time series using multiscale entropy (MSE). The MSE analysis of RC time series was used to investigate changes in the complexity of rainfall- runoff processes due to human activities. Firstly, a coarse graining process was applied to a time series. The sample entropy was then computed for each coarse-grained time series, and plotted as a function of the scale factor. The proposed method was tested in a case study of daily rainfall and runoff data for the upstream Wu–Tu watershed. Results show that the entropy measures of rainfall time series are higher than those of runoff time series at all scale factors. The entropy measures of the RC time series are between the entropy measures of the rainfall and runoff time series at various scale factors. Results also show that the entropy values of rainfall, runoff, and RC time series increase as scale