Open AccessOn fluctuations of the mean daily relative humidity and self‐organized critical phenomena
Author(s) -
García J. M.,
Gimenez L. M.,
Pacheco A. F.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: atmospheres
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/96jd03868
Subject(s) - relative humidity , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , humidity , physics , climatology , geology
We analyze the spectral density of the fluctuations in the relative humidity of Zaragoza, Spain in the period 1951–1993. A similar study has already been carried out by Vattay and Harnos [1994] using data from Hungary. These authors claim that this spectrum shows a l/ƒ α behavior. Our results indicate a different trend, which seems to show that relative humidity at ground level is not a self‐organized critical phenomenon.