Multiscaling properties of rain in the time domain, taking into account rain support biases

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Verrier, S ^a   Mallet, C ^a   Barthes L ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

DATA POINTS; DATA SETS; DISDROMETERS; FIRST-ORDER; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MONOFRACTAL; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTISCALING; NONZERO VALUES; RAIN EVENTS; SCALING MODEL; SCALING PROPERTIES; SMALL SCALE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TIME DOMAIN; UNIVERSAL MULTI-FRACTALS; ZERO VALUES;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

FRANCE;

EID: 80455156323     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015719     Document Type: Article

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