This introductory article presents the special Discussion and Debate volume “From black swans to dragon-kings, is there life beyond power laws?” We summarize and put in perspective the contributions into three main themes: (i) mechanisms for dragon-kings, (ii) detection of dragon-kings and statistical tests and (iii) empirical evidence in a large variety of natural and social systems. Overall, ...

Previous studies have found broad distributions, resembling power laws for different measures of the size of rainfall events. We investigate the large-event tail of these distributions and find in one measure that tropical cyclones account for a large proportion of the very largest events outside the scaling regime, i.e., beyond the cutoff of the power law. Tropical cyclones are sufficiently ra...

a Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK b Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK c College of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Peter Lanyon Building, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK d School of GeoSciences, Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Crew ...

a Department of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, Wash. , USA; b Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv , Israel; c Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Mich. , and d Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich. , USA;...

John Paul Vargheese, Peter Travers, Jeff Pan Computing Science University of Aberdeen Kings College Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kathryn Vincent, Claire Wallace, Anna Kabedeva School of Social Science University of Aberdeen Kings College Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, UK [email protected] [email protected] anna.kabedeva.11@aberdeen....

Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems: concepts from COST 715 B. Fisher, J. Kukkonen, M. Piringer, M. W. Rotach, and M. Schatzmann Environment Agency, Kings Meadow House, Reading RG1 8DQ, UK Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20 E, 00 880 Helsinki, Finland Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Vienna, Austria Swiss...

To appear in Theoretical Computer Science, special issue on papers presented at MFPS’95. J. Maraist a, M. Odersky a, D.N. Turner b and P. Wadler c a School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Warrendi Road, The Levels, South Australia 5095, Australia. Email, fmaraist,[email protected]. b An Teallach Limited, Technology Transfer Centre, Kings Buildings, Ma...