PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Climates

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYClimates

• Climates C-E
• C.J. Cox

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The Geography of World Climates

• World Patterns
• Tropical Climates
• Dry Climates
• Mid Latitude Climates
• Snow Climates
• Ice Climates

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Ice Climates (E)
Snow Climates (D)
Mid Latitude Climates (C)
Dry Climates (B)
Tropical Climates (A)
Dry Climates (B)
Mid Latitude Climates (C)
Ice Climates (E)
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Mediterranean Climate (Cs)

• Temperature average between 32 and 64 F
• Precipitation - dry summer wet winter
• Vegetation - chaparral, drought resistant woody
  shrubs scattered trees
• mediterranean woodland
• Soils - mixed
• Locations - West coasts of midlatitudes (find
  and list at least five specific countries,
  basins, or coasts)

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Humid Subtropical (Cfa)

• Temperature average between 32 and 64 F
• Precipitation - wet all year
• Vegetation - mixed broadleafs and conifers
• Soils - mixed
• Locations - East coast of mid latitudes (find and
  list at least five specific countries, basins, or
  coasts)

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Humid Subtropical in S. Carolina - Tobacco
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Humid Subtropical Yangze River, China
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Marine West Coast (Cfb)

• Temperature average between 32 and 64 F
• Precipitation - wet all year
• Vegetation - mixed but mostly conifers
• Soils - acidic
• Locations - East coast of mid latitudes north of
  mediterrean climates (find and list at least five
  specific countries, basins, or coasts)

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The Geography of World Climates

• World Patterns
• Tropical Climates
• Dry Climates
• Mid Latitude Climates
• Snow Climates
• Ice Climates

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Snow Climates (D)

• Temperature - coldest month is below 32f
• warmest month is above 50F
• Dfa,b Humid Continental Climate
• Dfc,d Subarctic climate

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Humid Continental (Dfa,b)

• Temperature - one month averages below 32F and
  at least one averages over 50F
• great annual temperature range
• Precipitation - wet all year
• Vegetation - mostly conifers
• Soils - acidic
• Locations - Higher latitudes and interiors of
  large northern continents (find and list at least
  five specific countries, basins, or coasts)

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Subarctic Climate (Dfc,d)

• Temperature average below 32F at least 4 months
  of the year
• great annual temperature range
• Precipitation - minimal (5-30)
• Vegetation - smaller conifers - taiga forests
• Soils - acidic
• Locations - Higher latitudes and interiors of
  large northern continents

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The Geography of World Climates

• World Patterns
• Tropical Climates
• Dry Climates
• Mid Latitude Climates
• Snow Climates
• Ice Climates

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Ice Climates (E)

• Temperature - monthly averages 9-12 months below
  32F
• no summer
• very little precipitation
• under polar high and the easterlies

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Polar Tundra Climate (ET)

• Temperature average below 32F 9 months of the
  year
• great annual temperature range
• Precipitation -
• Vegetation - mosses lichens
• Soils - significant permafrost
• Locations - Highest latitudes (65 degrees) and
  interiors of large northern continents

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Alaskan Tundra
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Polar Ice Cap (EF)

• Temperature average below 32F all year
• Precipitation - meager - desert like
• Vegetation - none
• Soils - none
• Locations -Glaciated regions near the polar
  areas and at the highest elevations

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Continental Ice Greenland
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H Climates Undifferentiated Highlands
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The Geography of World Climates

• World Patterns
• Tropical Climates
• Dry Climates
• Mid Latitude Climates
• Snow Climates
• Ice Climates

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Was that a BW, ET or Am???
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYClimates

• Climates C-E
• C.J. Cox