Multifractal analyses of daily rainfall time series in Pearl River basin of China

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 405, Issue , 2014, Pages 193-202

  Yu, Zu Guo ^a,b   Leung, Yee ^c   Chen, Yongqin David ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^d   Anh, Vo ^b   Zhou, Yu ^a,c  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall time series; Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis; Multifractal property; Universal multifractal model

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GEMS; RAIN; RIVERS; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHEDS;

DAILY RAINFALL; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; MULTI-FRACTAL PROPERTY; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL BEHAVIOR; MULTIFRACTAL DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL MODELS; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896955696     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.02.047     Document Type: Article

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