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Peters, O., Deluca, A., Corral, A., Neelin, J. D. and Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989 (2010) Universality of rain event size distributions. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2010 (11). P11030. ISSN 1742-5468

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/11/P11030

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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.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS
ID Code:19583
Uncontrolled Keywords:CRITPHENOM
Publisher:IOP Science
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