Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 108701 (2003) - Rain, Power Laws, and Advection

Rain, Power Laws, and Advection

Ronald Dickman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 108701 – Published 13 March 2003

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., Phys. Rev. Lett. 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.

Received 15 October 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.108701

©2003 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ronald Dickman^*

Departamento de Física, ICEx, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

^*Email address: dickman@fisica.ufmg.br

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Vol. 90, Iss. 10 — 14 March 2003

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