Two-dimensional Hurst-Kolmogorov process and its application to rainfall fields

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 398, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 91-100

  Koutsoyiannis, Demetris ^a   Paschalis, Athanasios ^a,b   Theodoratos, Nikos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hurst Kolmogorov dynamics; Hydrometeorology; Rainfall fields; Random fields; Stochastic processes; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

HURST-KOLMOGOROV DYNAMICS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RAINFALL FIELDS; RANDOM FIELDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 78951495854     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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