Empirical evidences of a common multifractal signature in economic, biological and physical systems

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2025-2035

  Pont, Oriol ^a   Turiel, Antonio ^b   Pérez Vicente, Conrad J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multifractal; Multiplicative cascade; Turbulence modeling

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

CASCADE PROCESS; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIFRACTAL FORMALISM; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

FRACTALS;

EID: 62149090650     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.01.041     Document Type: Article

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