Emergence of global scaling behaviour in the coupled Earth-atmosphere interaction.
Scale invariance property in the global geometry of Earth may lead to a coupled interactive behaviour between various components of the climate system. One of the most interesting correlations exists between spatial statistics of the global topography and the temperature on Earth. Here we show that the power-law behaviour observed in the Earth topography via different approaches, resembles a scaling law in the global spatial distribution of independent atmospheric parameters. We report on observation of scaling behaviour of such variables characterized by distinct universal exponents. More specifically, we find that the spatial power-law behaviour in the fluctuations of the near surface temperature over the lands on Earth, shares the same universal exponent as of the global Earth topography, indicative of the global persistent role of the static geometry of Earth to control the steady state of a dynamical atmospheric field. Such a universal feature can pave the way to the theoretical understanding of the chaotic nature of the atmosphere coupled to the Earth's global topography.
Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität of Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165 Berlin, Germany.
Bijan
B
Fallah
Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Tehran, Post Office Box 14395-547, Tehran, Iran.|Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.
Abbas Ali
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Saberi
Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität of Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165 Berlin, Germany.
Sahar
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