Analysis of rainfall records: possible relation to self-organized criticality

Andrade, RFS; Schellnhuber, HJ; Claussen, Martin

doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00057-0

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Andrade, R., Schellnhuber, H., & Claussen, M. (1998). Analysis of rainfall records: possible relation to self-organized criticality. Physica A, 254(3-4), 557-568. doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00057-0.

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The hypothesis that rainfall might be a case of self-organized critical dynamics is tested using long-term data sets from weather stations around the world. It is found that the distribution of droughts in semi-arid regions obeys indeed a clear-cut power law. The statistics for rain intensity, on the other hand, exhibits two distinct scaring regimes. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.