ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION AS A CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITION: FURTHER EVIDENCE

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (28n29) ◽  
pp. 5453-5465 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLE PETERS ◽  
J. DAVID NEELIN
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Rain Rate ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Atmospheric Precipitation ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Tuning Parameters

We present further methods to investigate in how far atmospheric precipitation can be described as a continuous phase transition. Previous work has shown a scale-free range in the rainfall event size distribution and a suggestive power-law pickup in the rain rate above a critical level of instability. Here we examine an additional technique for estimating critical parameters, we investigate the rain rate pickup for an example of an extreme event, namely satellite observations of Hurricane Katrina, and develop an analysis of fluctuations in the rain rate to estimate uncertainties in the tuning parameters relevant for the transition.

scholarly journals Understanding the Influence of Measurement Uncertainty on the Atmospheric Transition in Rainfall and Column Water Vapor

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 2041-2054 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Measurement Uncertainty ◽  
Rain Rate ◽  
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition ◽  
Rain Rates

Abstract Measurement uncertainty plays a key role in understanding physical relationships. This is particularly the case near phase transitions where order parameters undergo fast changes and display large variability. Here the proposed atmospheric continuous phase transition is examined by analyzing uncertainty in rain-rate and column water vapor measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and through an idealized error analysis. It is shown through both of these approaches that microwave rain-rate retrievals can mimic a continuous phase transition. This occurs because microwave retrievals of instantaneous rain rates have a suppressed range. This work also suggests that column water vapor noise may provide part of the plateau seen in the observational relationship. Using updated measurements, this work indicates that the atmosphere is unlikely to undergo a continuous phase transition in rain rate but, instead, contains much larger variability in rain rates at extreme column water vapor values than previously thought. This implies that the atmosphere transitions from a low-variance nonraining state to a high-variance raining state at extreme column water vapor values.

scholarly journals Continuous Phase Transition without Gap Closing in Non-Hermitian Quantum Many-Body Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norifumi Matsumoto ◽  
Kohei Kawabata ◽  
Yuto Ashida ◽  
Shunsuke Furukawa ◽  
Masahito Ueda
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Gap Closing

Higher Order Criteria on the Continuous Phase Transition

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 898-904
Author(s):  
Ruibao Tao ◽  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Masuo Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition

Characterization of a continuous phase transition in a chaotic system

2020 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 20002
Author(s):  
Edson D. Leonel ◽  
Makoto Yoshida ◽  
Juliano Antonio de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Chaotic System ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition

Critical wetting and surface-induced continuous phase transition on Cu3Au(001)

1987 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Alvarado ◽  
M. Campagna ◽  
A. Fattah ◽  
W. Uelhoff
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Continuous Phase Transition ◽  
Critical Wetting
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