Scaling characteristics of precipitation data in conjunction with wavelet analysis

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 395, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 279-288

  Özger, Mehmet ^a   Mishra, Ashok K ^b   Singh, Vijay P ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multifractal analysis; Rainfall; Wavelet analysis; Wet and dry spells

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PLANNING; ANNUAL CYCLE; DRY SPELLS; LOW FREQUENCY; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; MOMENT SCALING; MULTI-FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTISCALES; MULTISCALING; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAINFALL; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; SCALING MECHANISM; SCALING PARAMETER; SCALING PROPERTIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WET AND DRY;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CURING; FRACTALS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RAIN; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DROUGHT; FLOODING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649495374     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.10.039     Document Type: Article

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