my NASA data Data Set One Chart Chat Optom Update Char Avidos SST NORS 180 W WON Compute Nove over Aa AUR Earth System Data Explorer Ongley Lk Annabe Google Earth Show W/ Export to Desktop Application Download Dele DATASET: Water Vapor, Relative Humidity, and Precipitation O VARIABLE: Monthly Average Precipitation Rate(Satellite Observed) (millimeters per day) TIME: JUN-2000 NOTES: SOURCE: GPM IMERG • DESCRIPTION: This quantity provides the monthly average precipitation rate in millimeters per day. Precipitation includes both rain and snowfall, with snowfall contributing as the amount of liquid created when the snow is melted down. The total monthly precipitation at any location can be calculated by taking the precipitation rate and multiplying by the number of days in a month. The rate is an average; it does not mean that precipitation consistently falls at this rate throughout the month at any location. In fact, most hours in the month tend to have zero precipitation, while a much smaller number of hours have small but measureable amounts of precipitation, and a few hours each month have large amounts of precipitation. These data have a grid spacing of 0.5 degrees longitude and 0.5 degrees latitude. I UNITS: The units of the precipitation rate are millimeters per day. If the average rate at a location is one inch per day, then this is the same as 25.4 mm/day. LAS 8./Pyferret 7.63 NOAA/PMEL Diply Morage et Observed Date/Time Monthly 55 Question 1 Describe patterns you see in the precipitation on Earth. How do these patterns change during the course of a year and from year to year? Use lines of latitude and the amount of precipitation in millimeters/day (mm/day) in your description. BIVX² X₂ IV X² X, 15px AL VEEV In this description, concentrate on the difference between the tropical and the polar zones only. Include in your description, the appropriate latitudes (see section A) and the approximate amount of precipitation each on receives in millimeters per day (mm/day). Question 2 What causes the variations in Earth's precipitation during the course of a year or from year to year at a given location? B IV XX, 15p F 2 From your activity on predicting the weather, you should be able to answer this question by referring to the variations in temperature and air pressure and how each of those factors affects the chances of precipitation. You should also be able to determine (from the data), how much has the annual rainfall changed over the past five years in those two zones?