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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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climate summary
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Lightning over a farm field. Weather electricity thunderstorm light energy tree
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The yearly precipitation averaged over the whole Earth is about 100 cm (39 inches), but this is distributed very unevenly. The regions of highest rainfall are found in the equatorial zone and the monsoon area of Southeast Asia. Middle latitudes receive moderate amounts of precipitation, but little falls in the desert regions of the subtropics and around the poles. If Earth’s surface were perfectly uniform, the long-term average rainfall would be distributed in distinct latitudinal bands, but the situation is complicated by the pattern of the global winds, the distribution of land and sea, and the presence of mountains. Because ...(100 of 37038 words)

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