The document discusses different climate types including high mountain, Mediterranean, and hot-summer Mediterranean climates. It also discusses climate factors specific to the Canary Islands. High mountain climates are generally cold and wet with low winter temperatures and abundant rainfall. Mediterranean climates are characterized by mild, wet winters and very warm, dry summers and include regions around the Mediterranean Sea as well as parts of California, Australia, South Africa, Central Asia, and Chile. The most common Mediterranean climate is the hot-summer type, which features hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Climate factors in the Canary Islands include influence from the cold Canary ocean current, variations in insular relief between islands, and influence from

1. CLIMATE.
Alexza Castro, Anyhely Gutiérrez, Dhanya Schönmeier and
Alicia Sosa.

2. High mountain climate.
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The high mountain climate is generally cold and
wet weather. Temperatures are low in winter
and mild in summer. Rainfall is abundant all
year and frequently falls as snow in the winter
season.
Talking about fauna: Some animals are used to
this weather like ,for example the “sarrio”, but
other animals suffer or experience changes in
their organisms from the cold
Respect to flora: Cultivated lands not usually
exceed 1,000 meters. Above the forest grows, and
from the 1,800 meters, the bushes.
Zones: this type of weather is not abundant but
is spread around the earth globe.

4. Mediterranean climate.
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A Mediterranean climate is the climate typical of
the Mediterranean Basin, and is a particular
variety of subtropical climate. The lands around
the Mediterranean Sea form the largest area
where this climate type is found, but it also
prevails in much of California, in parts of
Western and South Australia, in southwestern
South Africa, sections of Central Asia, and in
central Chile.

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Precipitation: A Mediterranean climate is the
climate typical of the Mediterranean Basin, and
is a particular variety of subtropical climate. The
lands around the Mediterranean Sea form the
largest area where this climate type is found, but
it also prevails in much of California, in parts of
Western and South Australia, in southwestern
South Africa, sections of Central Asia, and in
central Chile
Temperature: The majority of the regions with
Mediterranean climates have relatively mild
winters and very warm summers. However
winter and summer temperatures can vary
greatly between different regions with a
Mediterranean climate.

6. Hot-summer Mediterranean
climate.
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This subtype of the Mediterranean climate is the most
common form of the Mediterranean climate, therefore it
is also known as a “typical Mediterranean climate”.
Regions with this form of the Mediterranean climate
typically experience hot, sometimes very hot and dry
summers and mild, wet winters. In a number of
instances, summers here can closely resemble summers
seen in arid and semiarid climates. However, high
temperatures during summers are generally not quite
as high as those in arid or semiarid climates due to the
presence of a large body of water. All areas with this
subtype have wet winters. On the other hand, some
areas with a hot Mediterranean subtype can actually
experience very chilly winters, with occasional snowfall.
Precipitation is heavier during the colder months.
However, there are a number of clear, sunny days
during the wetter months.

8. Climate factors of Canary.
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The cold Canary Current: the archipelago is
under the influence a cold ocean current called
cold Canary Current, which transports waters
from higher latitudes. This results in that the
temperature of the sea surface is maintained at
significantly lower with Canary respect to the
latitude in which it is located. In summer this is
further accentuated, so that the water
temperature of the sea around the Canary
Islands is almost equal to that of the Azores,
located farther north

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The insular relief: how relief of the Canary
Islands is quite different from one island to
another, and even within the same island can
find areas with great topographical variety. Well
defined mountain leave the northern slopes,
influenced by the trade winds, the south slopes,
sheltered of these (La Palma, Tenerife and Gran
Canaria). On islands where there is no height
enough to trap moisture that bring the trade,
they spend long without downloading it. This is
the main cause of the aridity of islands such as
Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

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Trade winds: are a regular and moderate, warm,
dry winds origin but the load across the ocean
moisture and cool. these winds originate in an
area close to the Azores area. In summer it is
when Canary islands are under the full influence
of these winds. in winter the influence is less
because the rules of the trade winds can be
altered other climate disruption. The trade
winds have two components: a superficial, lower
trade winds, which blow from the northeast
between 900 and 1 500 meters, and is presented
as a cool, wet wind. above the first trade wind
blows top, which has a northwesterly direction, it
is a wind dry and relatively warm.