Investigating the multifractality of point precipitation in the Madeira archipelago

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-311

  De Lima, M I P ^a,b   De Lima, J L M P ^b,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MADEIRA; PORTUGAL;

EID: 77949465144     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-299-2009     Document Type: Article

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