Space-time multifractality of remotely sensed rainfall fields

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 322, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 2-13

  Deidda, Roberto ^a   Badas, Maria Grazia ^a   Piga, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flood risk; Fractals and multifractals; Rainfall downscaling; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FRACTALS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING;

FLOOD RISKS; FRACTALS AND MULTIFRACTALS; RAINFALL DOWNSCALING; RAINFALL INTENSITY;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; FRACTALS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OCEAN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646164402     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.02.036     Document Type: Article

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