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UFN, 2025, Volume 195, Number 9, Pages 1017–1019 (Mi ufn16010)

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Probability distributions over energy and areas in processes described by Kolmogorov's 1934 random motion equation

G. S. Golitsyn

A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The Kolmogorov equation is described in detail in the paper by G.S. Golitsyn [UFN 194 86 (2024); Phys. Usp. 67 80 (2024)], which is a summary of the book by G.S. Golitsyn, Probability structures of the macrocosm: earthquakes, hurricanes, floods (Moscow: Fizmatlit, 2022), but insufficient attention is paid to probability distributions, integral and differential, for the processes described by this equation. The integral distribution for cosmic rays is derived only by the method of similarity and dimensionality, and the distribution of horizontal lengths L of clouds and their perimeters together with the ratio of the cloud perimeter to its size are not explained at all. Here, these shortcomings are corrected, and the results and methods can be useful for other purposes.

Keywords: distribution function, random motions, second moments of probability distribution, statistical laws of nature

PACS: 05.40.-a, 91.30.-f, 96.50.S-

Received: November 29, 2024
Revised: July 31, 2025
Accepted: August 1, 2025

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2025.08.039983


 English version:
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.2025.08.039983


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