The global space-time cascade structure of precipitation: Satellites, gridded gauges and reanalyses

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-50

  Lovejoy, S ^a,b   Pinel, J ^a   Schertzer, D ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Universite Paris Est   (France)

Author keywords

Cascades; Disaggregation; Fractals; Multifractals; Precipitation; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CASCADE PROCESS; CASCADE STRUCTURES; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CONTINENTAL US; DATA SETS; DIRECT PRODUCT; DISAGGREGATION; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERCOMPARISONS; LONG RANGE; LOW FREQUENCY; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MOMENT SCALING; MULTIFRACTAL MODELS; MULTIFRACTALS; OUTER SCALE; PLANETARY SCALE; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RAIN RATES; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL SCALE; SCALING; SCALING PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCIES; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER REGIMES;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); CLIMATOLOGY; FRACTALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

EID: 84864338684     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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