Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization

ISBN-13: 9780521004053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 570 str.

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe; Andrea Rinaldo; Andrea Rinaldo

Opis

This volume considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development.

Recenzje

' … a pleasure to read … the book is written in a clear and fluent manner and should render the topic accessible not only to members of the two research communities addressed - hydrologists and physicists - but also to graduate students intending to work in this field. It may also be useful as a source of introductory material and examples for a rather specialized course on complex systems.' Ohard Levy, Physics Today

Spis treści

1. A view of river basins; 2. Fractal characteristics of river basins; 3. Multifractal characteristics of river basins; 4. Optimal channel networks: minimum energy and fractal structures; 5. Self-organized fractal river networks; 6. On landscape self-organization; 7. Geomorphological hydrologic response; 8. References.