Multiscaling pulse representation of temporal rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 13-1-13-13

  Veneziano, Daniele ^a   Iacobellis, Vito ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multifractal; Rainfall; Scaling

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

MULTIFRACTAL PROPERTIES;

WATER RESOURCES;

MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FLORENCE; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 0036702737     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000522     Document Type: Article

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