Some long-run properties of rainfall records in Italy

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 101, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 29431-29438

  Montanari, Alberto ^a,c   Rosso, Renzo ^a,c   Taqqu, Murad S ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c Environ and Surv Eng ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL RECORD; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0000612395     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jd02512     Document Type: Article

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