Posts Tagged ‘ precipitation ’

NASA Water Cycle Video

June 4, 2011
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Here’s a nice animation showing the water cycle: Follow the red dot to track the water as evaporates, forms into clouds, condensates, rains down, gets absorbed into ground water, seeps into rivers and lakes, flows down into the ocean, and evaporates again to complete the cycle.
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Atmospheric Moisture

June 3, 2011
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Atmospheric Moisture

We are working on our movie for the D.R.I.P.S. presentation in Paris this summer. To really explain how our invention would work, we need to give a few definitions and provide some physics background. So this post is a collection of useful concepts and definitions about water in the air. The Hydrologic Cycle This...
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Dew as Drinking Water in Rural India

May 19, 2011
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Here’s an interesting video on how dew collection is supplementing drinking water in a rural Indian village.
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World Maps of Precipitation, Land Use, Vegetation, Climate, & People Density

November 21, 2010
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Here is a collection of maps from How Stuff Works on Precipitation, Land Use, Climate, Vegetation, and People Density. Annual Precipitation Map of the World Climate Map of the World Land Use Map of the World Population Density Map of the World Vegetation Map of the World
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