Singapore rainfall behavior: Chaotic?

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-48

  Sivakumar, Bellie ^a   Liong, Shie Yui ^a   Liaw, Chih Young ^a   Phoon, Kok Kwang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FORECASTING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LOW-DIMENSIONAL CHAOS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; RAINFALL CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR;

RAIN;

MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0032999119     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1999)4:1(38)     Document Type: Article

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