Analysis of rainfall records: possible relation to self-organized criticality

R.F.S. Andrade, H.J. Schellnhuber and M. Claussen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 254, issue 3, 557-568

Abstract: The hypothesis that rainfall might be a case of self-organized critical dynamics is tested using long-term data sets from weather stations around the world. It is found that the distribution of droughts in semi-arid regions obeys indeed a clear-cut power law. The statistics for rain intensity, on the other hand, exhibits two distinct scaling regimes.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00057-0

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