A large sample investigation of temporal scale-invariance in rainfall over the tropical urban island of Singapore

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 685-697

  Mandapaka, Pradeep V ^a   Qin, Xiaosheng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84944277887     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1317-6     Document Type: Article

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