Scaling Characteristics of Precipitation Data over Texas

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1009-1016

  Özger, Mehmet ^a,b   Mishra, Ashok K ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Drought; Dry and wet spells; Power law; Precipitation scaling; Texas; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

DRY AND WET; DRY AND WET SPELLS; GRID POINTS; INTERANNUAL CYCLES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOW FREQUENCY; POWER LAW; POWER-LAW COEFFICIENTS; PRECIPITATION DATA; SCALE INVARIANT; SCALING PROPERTIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEXAS; TIME-SCALES;

DROUGHT; FRACTAL DIMENSION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855918319     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000193     Document Type: Article

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