Multifractal analysis as a tool for validating a rainfall model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2672-2688

  García Marín, Amanda P ^a   Jimenez Hornero F J ^a   Ayuso Munoz J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Local climate model; Multifractality; Rainfall; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CURING; DRYING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CRITICAL MOMENT; DATA SERIES; DIFFERENT SIZES; EVENT DURATIONS; FANO FACTORS; FIRST ORDERS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL CLIMATE MODEL; MOMENT SCALING; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTALITY; PERIODOGRAM; PERIODOGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAINFALL; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL MODELLING; REAL DATA; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SOUTHERN SPAIN; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME CLUSTERING;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 48649095878     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6864     Document Type: Article

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