Influence of the zero-rainfall on the assessment of the multifractal parameters

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-25

  Gires, A ^a,b   Tchiguirinskaia, I ^a,b   Schertzer, D ^a,b   Lovejoy, S ^c  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

^b Cité Descartes ^*  (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multifractal phase transition; Multifractals; Scale invariance; Truncated fields; Zero rainfall

Indexed keywords

HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL PARAMETERS; MULTIFRACTALITY; RADAR DATA; RAINFALL DATA; SCALE INVARIANCE; SCALING ANALYSIS; TRUNCATED FIELDS; ZERO VALUES;

FRACTALS;

RAIN;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL;

FRANCE;

EID: 84864332854     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.026     Document Type: Article

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