Climatology of precipitation and clouds over Madagascar
Madagascar

General info Precipitation System properties Cloud Seasonal variation Diurnal variation Vertical Structure Extreme events Time series

Topography and population Madagascar has a mean elevation of 479 meter and 12 % of the area is covered with water. Within Madagascar, total human population is about 20486372. The geographical distributions of human population and topograph are shown below: Precipitation and cloud In Madagascar, mean annual precipitation is 1127.43 (mm/year). Mean volume fraction of high level (10-14 km) cloud is about 6.6%. Mean volume fraction of mid level (5-10 km) cloud is about 7.6%. Mean volume fraction of low level (1-5 km) cloud is about 9.7%. Click the links on the left to see the details of the precipitation and cloud systems.