ATM S 111 Lecture 9: Flood and Drought
6 Feb 2019
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These are just places that have weather stations. There are likely more extreme places that aren"t being measured. Rainiest spot may actually be lloro, colombia: 523. 6 inches/year. 905 inches in india in the foothills of the himalayas. All of the above examples are associated with mountains. To get rain, you need water vapor and rising motion. Condensation (water vapor turning to liquid water) happens when moist ai. And this cooling almost happens with rising motion. Rainiest spots on global scale are narrow bands near the equator ist air cools. Rainiest spots on global scale are narrow bands near the equator. Many of the driest places on earth are over the ocean. Air rises above the warmest ocean surface (hot air rises) Rain shifts in northern summer, southward in southern summer. The itcz follows the warmest ocean temperatures as they shift with the seasons. Land heats up in the summer, leads to rising/rain.
