Johannes Hüsing wrote: > Am 07.04.2008 um 12:24 schrieb Richard Cotton: > >>thegeologician wrote: >> >>>Of course, these plots could be plotted separately with a common >>>x-axis, >>>it's just a matter of saving space and of being used to that kind of >>>graph. I can't imagine anyone being falsely lead to a thought like "oh >>>gosh, the temperature is much higher/bigger/more than the >>>precipitation!" - that makes no sense. >> >>I think in the temperature/ precipitation case, whether to draw >>multiple >>y-axes or not is a fairly minor decision. The reader would have to be >>pretty dumb to assume that temperatures and precipitations can be >>compared. >> > > Au contraire, the diagrams are set up to allow this comparison. Google > for > "Walter Lieth" for details. > A rather neat way of displaying the relationship between the two measures, but I am somewhat bemused by the coexistence of "relative humid season" and "relative drought". I would have thought there was some temperature/precipitation function that specified one or the other.
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