Multifractal analysis of the evolution of simulated precipitation over France in a climate scenario

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 431-440

  Royer, Jean François ^a   Biaou, Angelbert ^a,b   Chauvin, Fabrice ^a   Schertzer, Daniel ^a,b   Lovejoy, Shaun ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coupled scenarios; Extreme events; Multifractal analysis; Rainfall variability; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48049089377     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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