A fractal approach to the recession of spring hydrographs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Hergarten, Stefan ^a   Birk, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTURE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

HYDROGRAPHS; POWER-LAW EXPONENT;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISCHARGE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 34547984946     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030097     Document Type: Article

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