An inverse cascade model for self-organized complexity and natural hazards

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 433-442

  Yakovlev, Gleb ^a   Newman, William I ^b   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Gabrielov, Andrei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Forest fire model; Inverse cascade; Power law scaling; Self organized criticality; Tokunaga network

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPLEXITY; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FOREST FIRE; INVERSE PROBLEM; NATURAL HAZARD; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33644510552     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02717.x     Document Type: Article

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