Rain viewed as relaxational events

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 328, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 46-55

  Peters, Ole ^a,b   Christensen, Kim ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rain; Relaxational events; Scaling; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; RAIN; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

NON-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS; RELAXATIONAL EVENTS; SCALING; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CHAOS THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CRITICAL STATE; EARTHQUAKE; RAINFALL;

EID: 33746922765     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.045     Document Type: Article

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