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

1998; Elsevier BV; Volume: 254; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0378-4371(98)00057-0

ISSN

1873-2119

Autores

Roberto F. S. Andrade, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Martin Claußen,

Tópico(s)

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Resumo

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.

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