Despite the complexity of the processes involved, the statistics of the tropical rain rate are remarkably similar to those of critical phenomena near continuous phase transitions in other — much smaller — physical systems.
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Arakawa, A. Scaling tropical rain. Nature Phys 2, 373–374 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys323
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