Precipitation, dynamical intermittency, and sporadic randomness

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 923-932

  Rigby, J R ^a,b   Porporato, Amilcare ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective rainfall; Dynamics; Entropy; Rainfall; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CONVECTIVE RAINFALL; DYNAMICAL MODEL; DYNAMICAL PHENOMENA; ENTROPIC ANALYSIS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; INTERMITTENCY; LAMINAR PHASIS; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; RAINFALL DYNAMICS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL SERIES; SEASONAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

BLENDING; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENTROPY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77954954363     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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