Fractal rain distributions and chaotic advection

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2003-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0311083v1

Brazilian Journal of Physics 34, 337 (2004)

Physics

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

16 pages; 8 figures (high resolution versions of figures 1-3 available on request)

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Localized rain events have been found to follow power-law distributions over several decades, suggesting parallels between precipitation and seismic activity [O. Peters et al., PRL 88, 018701 (2002)]. Similar power laws can be generated by treating raindrops as passive tracers advected by the velocity field of a two-dimensional system of point vortices [R. Dickman, PRL 90, 108701 (2003)]. Here I review observational and theoretical aspects of fractal rain distributions and chaotic advection, and present new results on tracer distributions in the vortex model.

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