Articles | Volume 25, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1209-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1209-2025
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29 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2025

Dynamical imprints on precipitation cluster statistics across a hierarchy of high-resolution simulations

Claudia Christine Stephan and Bjorn Stevens

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Tropical precipitation cluster area and intensity distributions follow power laws, but the physical processes responsible for this behavior remain unknown. We analyze global simulations that realistically represent precipitation processes. We consider Earth-like planets as well as virtual planets to realize different types of large-scale dynamics. Our finding is that power laws in Earth’s precipitation cluster statistics stem from the robust power laws in Earth’s atmospheric wind field.
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