Climatology of precipitation and clouds over WEST_US
WEST US

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

Topography and population WEST_US has a mean elevation of 1092 meter and 2 % of the area is covered with water. Within WEST_US, total human population is about 34237624. The geographical distributions of human population and topograph are shown below: Precipitation and cloud In WEST_US, mean annual precipitation is 351.63 (mm/year). Mean volume fraction of high level (10-14 km) cloud is about 3.3%. Mean volume fraction of mid level (5-10 km) cloud is about 9.0%. Mean volume fraction of low level (1-5 km) cloud is about 5.5%. Click the links on the left to see the details of the precipitation and cloud systems.