Spectral multiscaling of spatially averaged rain rate: A hint for spatio-temporal modelling

Environmetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 689-713

  Pavlopoulos, Harry ^a   Makatis, George ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multiplicative random cascade; Spatial scale parameter; Spatially averaged rain rate; Spectral distribution; Spectral moments; Strict and wide sense scaling; Strict and wide sense spectral scaling

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031647904     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-095x(199811/12)9:6<689::aid-env331>3.0.co;2-f     Document Type: Article

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