Modeling high-resolution rain rates via a deterministic fractal-multifractal approach

Fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 387-394

  Obregón, Nelson ^a   Puente, Carlos E ^b   Sivakumar, Bellie ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Fractals; Multifractals; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036759003     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X02001269     Document Type: Article

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