GEOMORPHOLOGICAL WIDTH FUNCTIONS AND THE RANDOM CASCADE Academic Article

abstract

• We examine the geomorphological width functions of several river basins through the formalism of conservative (microcanonical) random cascades and we compare the results with those of more conventional fractal and multifractal analyses. We suggest that the spatial patterns of aggregation described by the width functions analyzed show common recurrent characters and that the implications of the robust identification of the singularity spectra via Legendre transforms are supported also by random cascade rationale. Copyright 1994 by the American Geophysical Union.

authors

• Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio

published proceedings

• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• MARANI, M., RINALDO, A., RIGON, R., & RODRIGUEZ-ITURBE, I.

citation count

• 34

complete list of authors

• MARANI, M||RINALDO, A||RIGON, R||RODRIGUEZ-ITURBE, I

publication date

• September 1994

publisher

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)  Publisher

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 46 Information And Computing Sciences
• 4601 Applied Computing

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/94GL01933

start page

• 2123

end page

• 2126

volume

• 21

issue

• 19

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94gl01933