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Universality and Scale Invariance in Hourly Rainfall

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that the hourly rainfall rate distribution can be described by a simple power law to a good approximation. We show that the exponent of the distribution in tropics is universal and is equal to 1.13±0.111.13\pm 0.11. At higher latitudes the exponent increases and is found to lie in the range 1.3-1.6.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0202007,
  title  = {Universality and Scale Invariance in Hourly Rainfall},
  author = {Pankaj Jain and Suman Jain and Gauher Shaheen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0202007},
  year   = {2007}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures