Wet and dry epoch durations of spatially averaged rain rate, their probability distributions and scaling properties

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-380

  Pavlopoulos, Harry ^a   Gritsis, John ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eulerian atmospheric column; Gamma distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Law of proportionate effect; Lognormal distribution; Spatial scale parameter; Strict and wide sense simple scaling

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL;

EID: 0033500033     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009616018874     Document Type: Article

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