Evidence of chaos in the rainfall-runoff process;Preuve de l’0existence de chaos dans le processus pluie-débit

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 131-145

  Sivakumar, B ^a   Berndtsson, Ronny ^b   Olsson, Jonas ^c   Jinno, Kenji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaotic dynamics; Correlation dimension; G ta River; Nonlinear analysis; Rainfall runoff models; Runoff coefficient; Sweden; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CHAOS THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RUNOFF;

RUNOFF COEFFICIENT;

RAIN;

CORRELATION; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

GOTA RIVER; SWEDEN;

EID: 0035248666     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626660109492805     Document Type: Article

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