Causality across rainfall time scales revealed by continuous wavelet transforms

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Molini, Annalisa ^a,b   Katul, Gabriel G ^a,b   Porporato, Amilcare ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES; WATER VAPOR; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CASCADE MECHANISM; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONTINUOUS WAVELET; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; CROSS-SCALE CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHODS; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; INTERMITTENCY; LARGE-SCALE EVENT; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES; RAINFALL SERIES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SURROGATE DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; TOY MODELS; TRANSFER ENTROPY;

RAIN;

ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CORRELATION; ENTROPY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TIMESCALE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955355429     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013016     Document Type: Article

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