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The superstatistics concept is a useful statistical method to describe inhomogeneous complex systems for which a system parameter β fluctuates on a large spatio-temporal scale. In this paper we analyze a measured time series of wind speed fluctuations and extract the superstatistical distribution function f(β) directly from the data. We construct suitable Langevin and Fokker-Planck models with a position dependent β-field and show that they reduce to standard type of superstatistics in the overdamped limit.
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Van Der Straeten, E., Beck, C. Skewed superstatistical distributions from a Langevin and Fokker-Planck approach. Chin. Sci. Bull. 56, 3633–3638 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-011-4700-z
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