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ERA Interim, how to handle total precipitation
I am trying to compute accumulated annual precipitation for year 2000-2001 based on the ERA Interim, but I am stuck with some unresolved questions:
If I download the synoptic monthly means of "total ...
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Why wouldn't the earth be "always daytime" if the "daily cycle of sunlight" was drawn full-scale?
The question is clear enough in my opinion but, I've found out that if you redraw this picture here:
You'll notice that the Sun is as big as the Earth. But if you scale up the Sun to it's real size ...
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Sea breeze - magnitude of horizontal pressure gradient?
What is the range of horizontal pressure gradients typically caused by the differential heating of land and water under sea breeze conditions?
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What is a typical value of the Péclet number for internal waves?
Defining the Péclet number as:
$Pe = \frac{U \lambda}{\kappa}$
Where $U$ is the characteristic fluid velocity, $\lambda$ is the wavelength of the internal wave and $\kappa$ is the turbulent eddy ...
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