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Atmospheric Moisture

Looking Back: Patterns of Precipitation and Future Geographies

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1. Describe the general latitudinal distribution of precipitation from the north pole to the south pole noting regions of maxima and minima.

2. How do  global pressure belts affect the latitudinal pattern of precipitation?

3. Define "rain shadow".

4. Which uplift mechanisms are most important in the tropics? In the midlatitudes?

5. Describe how precipitation is likely to change from the tropics to the high latitudes on account of global warming.

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
2006. Date visited.  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

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