The sting in a fractal tail

Colin P. Stark () and Marc Stieglitz
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Colin P. Stark: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Marc Stieglitz: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6769, 493-495

Abstract: Knowing how contaminant dissolved in rainfall will behave on its way through a catchment area has clear practical uses. One such study has been carried out in mid-Wales using an innocuous marker, the sodium chloride blown inland in sea spray. The authors find that a non-fractal input (in rainfall) is turned into a fractal output (in stream water). One conclusion is that contaminant flushing from a watershed will take more time than usually expected.

Date: 2000
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