ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL RECORDS - POSSIBLE RELATION TO SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY

Authors
ANDRADE RFS SCHELLNHUBER HJ CLAUSSEN M
Citation
Rfs. Andrade et al., ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL RECORDS - POSSIBLE RELATION TO SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY, Physica. A, 254(3-4), 1998, pp. 557-568
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physica. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03784371
Volume
254
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
557 - 568
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-4371(1998)254:3-4<557:AORR-P>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The hypothesis that rainfall might be a case of self-organized critica l dynamics is tested using long-term data sets from weather stations a round the world. It is found that the distribution of droughts in semi -arid regions obeys indeed a clear-cut power law. The statistics for r ain intensity, on the other hand, exhibits two distinct scaring regime s. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.