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View SchemaFractal rain distributions and chaotic advection
| Authors | Ronald Dickman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0311083 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0311083 |
| Journal | Brazilian Journal of Physics 34, 337 (2004) |
Abstract
Localized rain events have been found to follow power-law distributions over several decades, suggesting parallels between precipitation and seismic activity [O. Peters et al., PRL 88, 018701 (2002)]. Similar power laws can be generated by treating raindrops as passive tracers advected by the velocity field of a two-dimensional system of point vortices [R. Dickman, PRL 90, 108701 (2003)]. Here I review observational and theoretical aspects of fractal rain distributions and chaotic advection, and present new results on tracer distributions in the vortex model.
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