https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/8206
metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | An Abelian model for rainfall |
Other Titles: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
Authors: | Pinho, Suani Tavares Rubim de Andrade, Roberto Fernandes Silva |
metadata.dc.creator: | Pinho, Suani Tavares Rubim de Andrade, Roberto Fernandes Silva |
Abstract: | Statistical analyses of long-term records of daily rain suggest that rain phenomena might be a manifestation of self-organized criticality. In this work the essential mechanisms of rain phenomena, the growth of droplets inside a cloud and the subsequent rainfall, are described by an Abelian sandpile model of self-organized criticality. Several simulations support the existence of scale invariance. The introduction of variations of the basic model, to provide a better description of the phenomena, does not alter the critical behavior. |
URI: | http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/8206 |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (FIS) |
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