Análisis y comportamiento espacial de la fractalidad temporal de la precipitación en la España peninsular y Baleares (1997-2010)

  1. Óliver Meseguer-Ruiz
  2. Javier Martín-Vide
  3. Jorge Olcina Cantos
  4. Pablo Sarricolea
Journal:
BAGE. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Geografía

ISSN: 0212-9426

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 73

Pages: 11-32

Type: Article

DOI: 10.21138/BAGE.2407 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

More publications in: BAGE. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Geografía

Abstract

The temporal fractality of rainfall ‘D’ indicates the property of self-similarity of rain, rainy events that recur regularly at different time scales. D values are determined for 44 stations of mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, varying between 1.6039 and 1.4499. According semesters, D values are lower in the warm half of the year than in the cold half. In the north, D values are higher, annual and semi-annual, whereas in the Eastern coast and Baleares and in the Ebro valley are lower, and higher differences between D values of both warm and cold halves in the north and the Guadalquivir valley.

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