A wavelet-based spectral method for extracting self-similarity measures in time-varying two-dimensional rainfall maps

Journal of Time Series Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-363

  Ramírez Cobo, Pepa ^a   Lee, Kichun Sky ^b   Molini, Annalisa ^c   Porporato, Amilcare ^c   Katul, Gabriel ^c   Vidakovic, Brani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale analysis; Rainfall radar images; Scale invariance; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958206259     PISSN: 01439782     EISSN: 14679892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9892.2011.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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