Climate :D

2. Brings order to large quantities of information
which aids comprehension and understanding
and facilities analysis and explanation

3. Temperature and precipitation – the most
important elements in a climatic description

4. Winterless with all months

5. Lie near the equator
Have constantly high temp. enough rainfall to
support the most luxurious vegetation found
climatic realm

6. Found poleward of the wet tropics and
equatorward of the tropical deserts where the
rain forest gives way to tropical grasslands and
scattered drought-tolerant trees of the savanna

7. Yearly precipitation is less than the potential
loss of water by evaporation

8. Arid or desert (BW)
Semiarid or steppe (BS)
The differences are primarily a matter of degree, with
semi-arid being a marginal and more humid variant
of arid

9. Average temp. of the coldest month is below
18C but above -3C

10. Humid subtropical climates (Cfa)
 Located on the eastern continents
Marine west coast climate (Cfb, Cfc)
Extends from US-Canadian border northward as a
narrow belt into Southern Alaska

11. Dry-summer subtropical climates (Csa, Csb)
Located along the west sides of the continent bet.
latitudes 30 and 45 degrees

12. Land-controlled climates that are absent in the
southern hemisphere

13. Humid continental climates (Dfa, Dfb, Dwa,
Dwb)
Confined to the eastern portions of North America
and Eurasia
Subarctic climates (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd)
Situated north of the humid continental climates and
south of the polar tundras

14. Summerless
Warmest month below 10C

15. Tundra (ET) – treeless climate found almost
exclusively in the NH
Ice cap climate (EF) – permanent ice and snow

16. PROJECT