Have you ever seen the rain? | Views of the World
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This animation is a visualisation which I originally produced for my PhD research and which was published in my book Rediscovering the World. While the printed book showed these maps in static form, the above animation gives a much more vivid impression of the current climate observations on the global #precipitation distribution over a period of approximately 50 years (~1950-2000, obtained from the WorldClim database).
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