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| Title |
Tornado outbreak variability follows Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling and increases dramatically with severity
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms10668 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael K. Tippett, Joel E. Cohen |
| Abstract |
Tornadoes cause loss of life and damage to property each year in the United States and around the world. The largest impacts come from 'outbreaks' consisting of multiple tornadoes closely spaced in time. Here we find an upward trend in the annual mean number of tornadoes per US tornado outbreak for the period 1954-2014. Moreover, the variance of this quantity is increasing more than four times as fast as the mean. The mean and variance of the number of tornadoes per outbreak vary according to Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling (TL), with parameters that are consistent with multiplicative growth. Tornado-related atmospheric proxies show similar power-law scaling and multiplicative growth. Path-length-integrated tornado outbreak intensity also follows TL, but with parameters consistent with sampling variability. The observed TL power-law scaling of outbreak severity means that extreme outbreaks are more frequent than would be expected if mean and variance were independent or linearly related. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 108 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 18% |
| Mexico | 10 | 9% |
| Spain | 7 | 6% |
| Chile | 5 | 5% |
| Argentina | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Peru | 2 | 2% |
| Andorra | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Unknown | 51 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 94 | 87% |
| Scientists | 12 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 47 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 47 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 9 | 19% |
| Researcher | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 9 | 19% |
| Unknown | 6 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 14 | 30% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 23% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 13% |
| Engineering | 3 | 6% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 450. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2023.
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