Scaling behavior in daily air humidity fluctuations

Gábor Vattay and Andrea Harnos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 768 – Published 1 August 1994
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Abstract

We show that the daily average air humidity fluctuations exhibit nontrivial 1/fα behavior which is different from the spectral properties of other meteorological quantities. This feature and the fractal spatial structure found in clouds make is plausible to regard air humidity fluctuations as a manifestation of self-organized criticality. We give arguments why the dynamics in air humidity can be similar to those in sandpile models of self-organized criticality.

  • Received 10 March 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.768

©1994 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gábor Vattay

  • Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen O/, Denmark

Andrea Harnos

  • University of Veterinary Science, Department of Biomathematics and Computer Science, István u. 2, H-1078 Budapest, Hungary

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Vol. 73, Iss. 5 — 1 August 1994

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