Universality of rain event size distributions

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Peters, Ole ^a,b   Deluca, A ^c   Corral, A ^c   Neelin, J D ^b   Holloway, C E ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite size scaling; Heat transfer and convection; Self organized criticality (experiment)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650396475     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/11/P11030     Document Type: Article

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