Multifractal analysis of daily river flows including extremes for basins of five to two million square kilometres, one day to 75 years

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2 /2, 1998, Pages 62-81

  Pandey, G ^a,b   Lovejoy, S ^a   Schertzer, D ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

Author keywords

Daily river flows; Extremes; Multifractal analysis

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

DAILY RIVER FLOWS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS;

FLOW OF WATER;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032504054     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00148-6     Document Type: Article

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