A Complexity View of Rainfall

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2002-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201468v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018701-1 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.018701

We show that rain events are analogous to a variety of nonequilibrium relaxation processes in Nature such as earthquakes and avalanches. Analysis of high-resolution rain data reveals that power laws describe the number of rain events versus size and number of droughts versus duration. In addition, the accumulated water column displays scale-less fluctuations. These statistical properties are the fingerprints of a self-organized critical process and may serve as a benchmark for models of precipitation and atmospheric processes.

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