Investigation of the fractal dimension of rainfall occurrence in a semi-arid Mediterranean climate

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 483-497

  Ghanmi, H ^a,b   Bargaoui, Z ^a   Mallet, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

box counting; fractal dimension; mono fractal; on off intermittency; rainfall time series; scale invariance; semi arid Mediterranean climate

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MONO-FRACTAL; ON-OFF INTERMITTENCY; SCALE INVARIANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

RAIN;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84876428906     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.775446     Document Type: Article

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