Rain, power laws, and advection
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract
Localized rain events have been found to follow power-law size and duration distributions over several decades, suggesting parallels between precipitation and seismic activity [O. Peters et al., PRL 88, 018701 (2002)]. Similar power laws are generated by treating rain as a passive tracer undergoing advection in a velocity field generated by a two-dimensional system of point vortices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210327,
title = {Rain, power laws, and advection},
author = {Ronald Dickman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210327},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures