On the correlation structure of continuous and discrete point rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Marani, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES;

POINT RAINFALL; POWER LAW SCALING;

WATER RESOURCES;

POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1542751553     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001456     Document Type: Article

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