This study presents a cellular automaton (CA) model of tropical oceanic rain clusters based on atmospheric stability and gravity-wave interactions. The model reproduces power-law distributions for cluster area and rain rate, exhibiting criticality similar to 2D percolation. The scaling exponent for cluster area is robust to model parameters and matches simulations over the Indian Ocean and Atlantic, although it differs from some observational estimates, suggesting further model tuning is needed.
This study presents a cellular automaton (CA) model of tropical oceanic rain clusters based on...