Fluctuation analysis of monthly rainfall time series

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-228

  Pierini, Jorge O ^a   Telesca, Luciano ^b   McDonnell, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cycles; Detrended fluctuation analysis; Power spectrum; Rainfall; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952810817     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477510000150     Document Type: Article

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