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ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL RECORDS IN INDIA: SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY AND SCALING

Materials Science Section, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

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Materials Science Section, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X06003258Cited by:8 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The time series data of the monthly rainfall records (for the time period 1871–2002) in All India and different regions of India are analyzed. It is found that the distributions of the rainfall intensity exhibit perfect power law behavior. The scaling analysis revealed two distinct scaling regions in the rainfall time series.

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Vol. 14, No. 04

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Received 22 December 2005

Accepted 18 April 2006

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