Multiscaling properties of rainfall and bounded random cascades

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2823-2830

  Menabde, Merab ^a   Harris, Daniel ^a   Seed, Alan ^a   Austin, Geoff ^a   Stow, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTISCALING PROPERTIES; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL; RAINFALL TIME SERIES; RANDOM CASCADE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TIME SERIES;

ENERGY SPECTRA; OBSERVED DATA; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELING; RANDOM CASCADE MODEL; RANDOM CASCADES; RANDOM FIELDS; TIME-SERIES DATA; TIME-SERIES SIMULATION;

RAIN;

EID: 0030724581     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR02006     Document Type: Article

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