Haar wavelets, fluctuations and structure functions: Convenient choices for geophysics

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 513-527

  Lovejoy, S ^a   Schertzer, D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Universite Paris Est   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867760224     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-19-513-2012     Document Type: Article

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