Chaos in rainfall: Variability, temporal scale and zeros

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-184

  Sivakumar, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Correlation dimension; Data size; Noise; Rainfall; Scale; Zeros

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650147010     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: 14651734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2005.0015     Document Type: Article

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