Middle-latitude climates - The Global Climate System: Patterns, Processes, and Teleconnections - page 112

Figure 4.5 Annual (black
line) and five-year running
(gray line) mean
precipitation bands that
cover 30%, 40% and 30% of
the global area. (Source:
NASA:GISS)

1.7

Northern latitudes
(90° N-24° N)

1.6

1.5

(a)

1.4

4.3

4.2

4.1

4.0

3.9

Low latitudes
(24° N-24° S)

3.8

(b)

Southern latitudes
(24° S-90° S)

2.1

2.0

1.9

1.8

(c)

1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000

2.4

Figure 4.6 Annual and
five-year running mean
precipitation in the
contiguous United States.
(Source: NASA:GISS)

2.2

2.0

1.8

Annual mean
5-year mean

1.6

1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000