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 . At higher latitudes the exponent increases and is found to lie in the range 1.3-1.6.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures