Go to: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/global.html and click on A WEE

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Go to: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/global.html and click on A WEEK of Rainfall ACCUMULATION “Medium Quicktime” or “Medium Mpeg” to observe accumulated rainfall patterns for the previous seven days.

Question: Broad areas in the TRMM global accumulated rainfall pattern for the past week that exhibited evidence of little or no rainfall generally [(show no relationship to) OR (coincide with)] the dark areas in the animated global views of atmospheric water vapor you viewed at the beginning of this investigation. As you recall, the dark areas denoted low water vapor content.

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Answer:

The video represents the rainfall pattern over world. The dark areas recieves less rainfall than others, because mostly water vapour accumulated over the ocean region. Due to which landmass recieves less amount of rainfall, however some amount of rainfall occurs over landmass due to change in wind pattern all over the world.

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