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News Release 06-097

A Link Between Rainfall and Magnetism

They are nothing alike--except for their underlying mathematics

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Both tropical rainfall and magnetism are described by the math of self-organized criticality.

Both tropical rainfall and magnetism are described by the mathematics of "self-organized criticality."

Credit: Pacific Worlds