Universality of rain event size distributions
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
2011-03-24 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We compare rain event size distributions derived from measurements in climatically different regions, which we find to be well approximated by power laws of similar exponents over broad ranges. Differences can be seen in the large-scale cutoffs of the distributions. Event duration distributions suggest that the scale-free aspects are related to the absence of characteristic scales in the meteorological mesoscale.
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@article{arxiv.1010.4201,
title = {Universality of rain event size distributions},
author = {O. Peters and A. Deluca and A. Corral and J. D. Neelin and C. E. Holloway},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4201},
year = {2011}
}
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16 pages, 10 figures