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o Cylindrical: formed by projecng coordinates from the earth's surface onto a cylinder that either intersects the surface in two small circles or is tangent to a great circle on the surface o Tangenal: Good for seeing one area V. Oceans. Hypsometric curve and the relave size of oceans, depth, etc.  The hypsometric curve shows distribuon of surface rela

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- Tilt : how tilted Earth’s rotational axis is relative to the orbital plane. This is the second slowest cycle - Precession : variation in the direction Earth’s axis points. This is the fastest cycle Milankovitch cycles affect the TIMING and DISTRIBUTION of insolation on Earth’s surface - This influences the timing and intensity of seasons as well as the amo

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Predicting El Nino: by monitoring sea-surface elevations and temperatures, and the atmospheric pressures in the central Pacific. El Nino shows abnormally high sea-surface temperatures and elevations, and low atmospheric pressures. 5) Severe Weather Thunderstorms, Lightning, Tornadoes & Hurricanes Thunderstorms & Lightning: ~20,000,000 cloud

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