Generating and scaling fractional Brownian motion on finite domains

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Cintoli, Stefano ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b   Di Federico, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FRACTALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ERGODICITY; POWER VARIOGRAMS; SAMPLING WINDOWS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 22944451486     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022608     Document Type: Article

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