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What's the difference between weather and climate?
See how differing amounts of solar radiation at the poles and Equator affect Earth's climate and atmosphere
season Average exchange of energy between the surface, the atmosphere, and space, as percentages of incident solar radiation (1 unit = 3.4 watts per square metre). major surface currents of the oceans Global distribution of mean annual evaporation (in centimetres). diagram of the hydrologic cycle of water
Follow water in its many forms, from glaciers and clouds to freshwater rivers and saltwater oceans
See how water transforms between liquid, ice, and vapour in the water cycle
cloud types
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Lightning over a farm field. Weather electricity thunderstorm light energy tree
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The average relative humidity for July reveals the humidity provinces of the Northern Hemisphere when aridity is at a maximum. At other times the relative humidity generally will be higher. The humidities over the Southern Hemisphere in July indicate the humidities that comparable regions in the Northern Hemisphere will attain in January, just as July in the Northern Hemisphere suggests the humidities in the Southern Hemisphere during January. A contrast is provided by comparing a humid cool coast to a desert. The midday humidity on the Oregon coast, for example, falls only to 80 percent, whereas in the Nevada desert ...(100 of 37038 words)

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