Multifractality and rainfall extremes: A review

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Veneziano, Daniele ^a   Langousis, Andreas ^a   Furcolo, Pierluigi ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOTIC SCALING; MULTIFRACTALITY; ROUGH MODELS; SCALE INVARIANCE;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33746620378     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004716     Document Type: Article

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