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Global distribution of mean annual evaporation (in centimetres).
Figure 3: Latitudinal variation in precipitation and evaporation and relationship to major wind belts and oceanic salinity.
The video thumbnail image shows mist rising from a body of water in front of a hill.
Which came first—the rain or the rainforest?
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