Climatology of precipitation and clouds over SOUTH_IDIAN_OCEAN
SOUTH IDIAN OCEAN

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

Topography and population SOUTH_IDIAN_OCEAN has a mean elevation of 0 meter and 99 % of the area is covered with water. Within SOUTH_IDIAN_OCEAN, total human population is about 2052421. The geographical distributions of human population and topograph are shown below: Precipitation and cloud In SOUTH_IDIAN_OCEAN, mean annual precipitation is 420.83 (mm/year). Mean volume fraction of high level (10-14 km) cloud is about 2.2%. Mean volume fraction of mid level (5-10 km) cloud is about 4.1%. Mean volume fraction of low level (1-5 km) cloud is about 9.5%. Click the links on the left to see the details of the precipitation and cloud systems.