Seasonal Swings in Tropical Rainfall: Image of the Day (2007)
2007 · Short film
Synopsis
Rainfall is the primary way the atmosphere spreads heat around. Not surprisingly, nearly two-thirds of all rain falls in the tropics, where incoming sunlight is steady year round. Sunlight evaporates water from the warm ocean and land surfaces. The water vapor holds on to the heat that drove its evaporation until it condenses back into rain drops and releases the heat back to the atmosphere. This perpetual cycle of heating, evaporation, condensation, and rainfall moves heat from one place on…
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