Detecting nonlinearity in time series driven by non-Gaussian noise: The case of river flows

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 463-470

  Laio, F ^a   Porporato, A ^b   Ridolfi, L ^a   Tamea, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; RIVER FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 10644228584     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-11-463-2004     Document Type: Article

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