Climatology of precipitation and clouds over MELANESIA
MELANESIA

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

Topography and population MELANESIA has a mean elevation of 6 meter and 97 % of the area is covered with water. Within MELANESIA, total human population is about 2192395. The geographical distributions of human population and topograph are shown below: Precipitation and cloud In MELANESIA, mean annual precipitation is 2140.83 (mm/year). Mean volume fraction of high level (10-14 km) cloud is about 17.1%. Mean volume fraction of mid level (5-10 km) cloud is about 15.0%. Mean volume fraction of low level (1-5 km) cloud is about 15.8%. Click the links on the left to see the details of the precipitation and cloud systems.