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Figure 8.7: Global distribution of the surface specific humidity for annual-mean (a) and
January-minus-July conditions (b), of the vertical-mean specific humidity (from Peixoto and
Oort, 1992).
mountains mayor may not return this water to the ocean basin where it was evaporated. One
significant consequence of this process is that there are rapid net transports of water vapor from
one ocean basin to another, though they are hard to estimate accurately with available data,
W.B. Rossow
Figure 8.7: Global distribution of the surface specific humidity for annual-mean (a) and
January-minus-July conditions (b), of the vertical-mean specific humidity (from Peixoto and
Oort, 1992).
mountains mayor may not return this water to the ocean basin where it was evaporated. One
significant consequence of this process is that there are rapid net transports of water vapor from
one ocean basin to another, though they are hard to estimate accurately with available data,