Rain, power laws, and advection
arXiv:cond-mat/0210327 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.108701
Abstract
Localized rain events have been found to follow power-law size and duration distributions over several decades, suggesting parallels between precipitation and seismic activity [O. Peters et al., PRL 88, 018701 (2002)]. Similar power laws are generated by treating rain as a passive tracer undergoing advection in a velocity field generated by a two-dimensional system of point vortices.
arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures
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