Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No |
Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2002
Available in French: No
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This programme takes a ride with the rains from the wettest place in Europe – the Norwegian town of Bergen where it rains 265 days of the year – to the wettest place in the world, India, where 25 billion tons of water fall each day during the monsoon period. Following the route of the Thermohaline Conveyor (density-driven, global ocean circulation, sometimes called the Conveyor Belt, which moves warmer waters towards the Poles and cold bottom waters towards the Equator), we come to the warm seas of the Caribbean and the awesome power of floods. The devastating effects were seen in Honduras in 1998, where 75 inches of rain fell in a week. In Texas, the opposite is true; there is no rain, which is why local farmers are hoping to find a solution by exploring ways of manufacturing it. |
