Apparent/spurious multifractality of data sampled from fractional Brownian/Lévy motions

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2056-2067

  Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractals; Fractional Brownian motion; Fractional L vy motions; Heavy tailed distribution; Multifractals; Sampling

Indexed keywords

DATA SUPPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EUCLIDEAN DIMENSIONS; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; FINITE DOMAINS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; GAUSSIAN FIELD; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; LARGE LAG; MATHEMATICAL VALIDITY; MONOFRACTAL; MULTIFRACTALITY; MULTIFRACTALS; POROUS FLOW; RAIN-INTENSITY; RANDOM FIELDS; RIVER FLOW; RIVER NETWORK; SAMPLING WINDOWS; SELF-AFFINE; SOIL WATER STORAGE; TURBULENT VELOCITY; UNDER-SAMPLING; WIDTH FUNCTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MODEL CHECKING; SAMPLING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS;

FRACTALS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

EID: 77954359641     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7611     Document Type: Article

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