Multifractality, imperfect scaling and hydrological properties of rainfall time series simulated by continuous universal multifractal and discrete random cascade models

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 697-714

  Serinaldi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

EID: 78650119153     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-697-2010     Document Type: Article

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