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(‘rain’ is ‘liquid water’ in the form of ‘droplets’ that have ‘condensed’ from ‘atmospheric water vapor’ and then ‘precipitated’)
(…that is…become ‘heavy’ enough to fall under ‘gravity’)
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(‘rain’ is a major component of the ‘water cycle’ + is responsible for depositing most of the ‘fresh water’ on the ‘earth’)
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(it provides suitable conditions for many types of ‘eco-systems’…)
(…as well as ‘water’ for ‘hydro-electric power plants’ + ‘crop irrigation’)
(the major cause of ‘rain production’ is ‘moisture’ moving along ‘3-dimensional zones’ of ‘temperature’ + ‘moisture’ contrasts known as ‘weather fronts’)
(if enough ‘moisture’ + ‘upward motion’ is present, ‘precipitation’ falls from ‘convective clouds’ (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as ‘cumulonimbus’ (aka ‘thunder clouds’) which can organize into narrow ‘rainbands’)
(in ‘mountainous areas’, ‘heavy precipitation’ is possible where ‘upslope flow’ is maximized within ‘windward sides’ of the ‘terrain’ at elevation which forces ‘moist air’ to ‘condense’ + ‘fall out’ as ‘rainfall’ along the sides of ‘mountains’)
(on the ‘leeward side’ of ‘mountains’, ‘desert climates’ can exist due to the ‘dry air’ caused by ‘downslope flow’ which causes ‘heating’ + ‘drying’ of the ‘air mass’)
(the movement of the ‘monsoon trough’ (or ‘inter-tropical convergence zone’) brings ‘rainy seasons’ to ‘savannah climes’)
(the ‘urban heat island effect’ leads to ‘increased rainfall’, both in ‘amounts’ + ‘intensity’, downwind of ‘cities’)
(‘global warming’ is also causing changes in the ‘precipitation pattern’ globally, including ‘wetter conditions’ across ‘eastern north america’ + ‘drier conditions’ in ‘the tropics’)
(‘antarctica’ is the ‘driest’ continent)
(the globally averaged annual precipitation over land is ‘715 mm’ (/ ‘28.1 inches’), but over the whole earth it is much higher at ‘990 mm’ (/ ’39 inches’))
(‘climate classification systems’ (such as the ‘köppen climate classification system’ use ‘average annual rainfall’ to help differentiate between differing ‘climate regimes’)
(‘rainfall’ is measured using ‘rain gauges’)
(‘rainfall amounts’ can be estimated by ‘weather radar’)
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(‘rain’ is also ‘known’ (or ‘suspected’) on other ‘planets’, where it may be composed of…)
‘methane’
‘neon’
‘sulfuric acid’
‘iron’
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(….rather than ‘water’)
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