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The global distribution of precipitation and clouds. chapter 2.4
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Huffman, George Shepherd, J. Marshall Adler, Robert Ritter, Michael Rossow, William Curtis, Scott |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Description | The water cycle is the key circuit moving water through the Earth's system. This large system, powered by energy from the sun, is a continuous exchange of moisture between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the land. Precipitation (including rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail), is the primary mechanism for transporting water from the atmosphere back to the Earth's surface and is the key physical process that links aspects of climate, weather, and the global water cycle. Global precipitation and associate cloud processes are critical for understanding the water cycle balance on a global scale and interactions with the Earth's climate system. However, unlike measurement of less dynamic and more homogenous meteorological fields such as pressure or even temperature, accurate assessment of global precipitation is particularly challenging due to its highly stochastic and rapidly changing nature. It is not uncommon to observe a broad spectrum of precipitation rates and distributions over very localized time scales. Furthermore, precipitating systems generally exhibit nonhomogeneous spatial distributions of rain rates over local to global domains. |
| File Size | 5557128 |
| Page Count | 15 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040171853 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4wh7j514 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2004-08-20 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Rain Climate Spatial Distribution Cloud Physics Oceans Moisture Stochastic Processes Water Balance Precipitation Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
