Beautiful Maps: Total Precipitable Water

By Ben • maps, nature • 22 Sep 2012
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From tropic.ssec.wisc.edu
via What If?

"Air holds water. If you walled off a column of air, from the ground up to the top of the atmosphere, and then cooled the column of air down, the moisture it contained would condense out as rain. If you collected the rain in the bottom of the column, it would fill it to a depth of anywhere between zero and a few dozen centimeters. That depth is what we call the air’s total precipitable water."

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