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climate in which the average temperature is greater than 18 degrees Celsius
What is tropical climate?
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This climate has a winter dry season, average monthly temperatures are greater than 18 degrees Celsius, and there are more than two months with less than 60 mm of precipitation.
What is Tropical Wet and Dry (Aw)?
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This person developed the Koppen classification system for climates.
Who is Vladimir Koppen?
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Perrennial Ice
What is ice cap (EF)?
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The longer term average of weather for a specific area.
What is climate?
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climate where all months have mean temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius
What is polar climate?
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The mild climate with no dry season, hot summer, average temperature of warmest months are over 22 degrees Celsius, average temperature of coldest month is under 18 degrees Celsius, and year round variable rainfall.
What is Humid Subtropical (Cfa)?
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The two factors that determine the climate.
What is temperature and precipitation?
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The humid climate with sever, dry winter and hot summer.
What is Humid Continental Hot Summer, Wet All Year (Dwa)?
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The ocean zone with rising air, weak winds and doldrums?
What is Equatorial?
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climate that has potential evaporation exceeds precipitation
What is dry climate?
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The low-latitude dry climate with evaporation exceeds precipitation on average but is less than potential evaporation, average temperature is less than 18 degrees Celsius.
What is Subtropical Dry Semiarid (BSh-Steppe)?
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Tropical, Dry, Mild Mid-latitude, Severe Mid-latitude, polar
What are the five climate zones?
300
Severe winter climate with no dry season and cool summer.
What is Subarctic with Cool summer, wet all year (Dfc)?
300
Carbon Dioxide, water vapor and methane.
What are Greenhouse gases?
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The coldest month of the year has an average temperature higher than -3 degrees Celsius.
What is mild mid-latitude climate?
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The mild climate with a dry winter, hot and wet summer.
What is Dry Winter, Wet Summer (Cwa)?
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The climate used for mountain environments.
What is the H climate zone?
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Mild climate with no dry season, cool summer, average temperature of all months is lower than 22 degrees Celsius, year around equally spread rainfall and there are one to three months with average temperatures over 10 degrees Celsius.
What is Marine - Cool Winter (Cfc)?
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The indirect evidence using natural recorders of climate variability, such as sea floor sediments, coral deposits, glacial ice rings, tree rings, pollen and historical documents.
What is proxy data?
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the climate with winters having at least occasional snow cover, with the coldest month having a mean temperature below -3 degrees Celsius. Summers are mild.
What is severe mid-latitude?
500
The severe, very cold climate with a dry winter and cool summer.
What is Subarctic with Cold Winter, Dry Winter (Dwd)?
500
A period from 1918 to 1936.
When was the Koppen system developed?
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Mild climate with cool, dry summer, no months with average temperature of warmest months over 22 degrees Celsius, at least four months with average temperatures over 10 degrees Celsius, frost danger in winter, at least three times as much precipitation during wettest winter months as in the driest summer month.
What is Coastal Mediterranean (Csb)?
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When air pressure across equatorial Pacific is higher in Eastern Pacific, causing strong southeast trade winds, Pacific warm pool on western side of ocean, Thermocline deeper on western side and an upwelling off the coast of Peru.
What is Walker Circulation Cell?