The universal scaling characteristics of tropical oceanic rain clusters

• Main Authors: Teo, C.-K., Huynh, Hoai-Nguyen, Koh, T.-Y., Cheung, K. K. W., Legras, B., Chew, Lock Yue, Norford, L.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Tropical rain clusters; Self-organized criticality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85334; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43690
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using multiyear satellite rainfall estimates, the distributions of the area, and the total rain rate of rain clusters over the equatorial Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans was found to exhibit a power law math formula, in which S represents either the cluster area or the cluster total rain rate...