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100	1		_aRodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio.
245	1	0	_aFractal river basins : _bchance and self-organization / _cIgnacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Andrea Rinaldo.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2001.
300			_axvi, 547 p., [4] pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c27 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a1. 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. Geomorphologic hydrologic response-- References-- Index.
520			_aThis book considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development. The hydrology of river basins, and prediction of their growth, demands knowledge of a range of temporal and spatial scales. The core of Fractal River Basins is the search for the hidden order of these temporal and spatial variabilities in river basins, despite variations in size, climate and geology. The commonality of branching networks to other natural phenomena will make this book applicable to a wide range of disciplines. Hydrologists and geomorphologists will find that this book opens up the important topic of the fractal structure of networks at an accessible level. Mathematicians and physicists will appreciate the application of the theory to this aspect of the earth sciences. Comprehensive, well illustrated and with many real-world examples Fractal River Basins, will be useful to researchers and students alike.
650		0	_aRivers _xMathematical models.
650		0	_aFractals.
700	1		_aRinaldo, Andrea.
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