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Título: Scaling properties of rainfall and desert dust in the Canary Islands
Autores/as: Peñate de la Rosa, Irene
Martín-González, J. M. 
Rodríguez, G. 
Cianca-Aguilar, Andrés
Clasificación UNESCO: 2509 Metereología
Palabras clave: Marine Boundary-Layer
Cantor Set Model
Saharan Dust
North-Atlantic
Fractal Analysis, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2013
Publicación seriada: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 
Resumen: Precipitation and desert dust event occurrence time series measured in the Canary Islands region are examined with the primary intention of exploring their scaling characteristics as well as their spatial variability in terms of the islands topography and geographical orientation. In particular, the desert dust intrusion regime in the islands is studied in terms of its relationship with visibility. Analysis of dust and rainfall events over the archipelago exhibits distributions in time that obey power laws. Results show that the rain process presents a high clustering and irregular pattern on short timescales and a more scattered structure for long ones. In contrast, dustiness presents a more uniform and dense structure and, consequently, a more persistent behaviour on short timescales. It was observed that the fractal dimension of rainfall events shows an important spatial variability, which increases with altitude, as well as towards northern latitudes and western longitudes.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/11181
ISSN: 1023-5809
DOI: 10.5194/npg-20-1079-2013
Fuente: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics[ISSN 1023-5809],v. 20, p. 1079-1094
Derechos: by-nc-sa
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