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The "global" movements of precipitation are relatively constant at this "scale"!
Components of the Water Cycle on Flat Map
Water regulates climate, predominately storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and the atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle.
The three animations of atmospheric phenomena are generated from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include hourly evaporation, water vapor and precipitation. For more information on GEOS-5 see gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5. For more information on the cubed-sphere work see science.gsfc.nasa.gov/610.3/cubedsphere.html.
The animation of global ocean surface temperature was created using data from ECCO's Ocean General Circulation Model. See www.ecco-group.org/model.htm for more information on ECCO.
This group of animations is an orthographic view of the data used in the Water Cycle Components.
Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio This is a contribution of the Consortium for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program
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Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
This is a contribution of the Consortium for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program
High resolution version to download here: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003811/
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