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This document provides descriptions of different climate classifications based on temperature and precipitation patterns. It describes tropical wet (Af), tropical monsoonal (Am), tropical savannah (Aw), low latitude desert (BWh), midlatitude desert (BWk), low latitude steppe (BSh), mid latitude steppe (BSk), humid subtropical (Cfa, Cwa), marine west coast (Cfb, Cfc), mediterranean (Csa, Csb), humid continental (Dfa, Dfb, Dwa, Dwb), subarctic (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd), tundra (ET), ice cap (EF), and highland (H or F) climates
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temperature vs precipitation graphs for major climate types of the world
This document provides descriptions of different climate classifications based on temperature and precipitation patterns. It describes tropical wet (Af), tropical monsoonal (Am), tropical savannah (Aw), low latitude desert (BWh), midlatitude desert (BWk), low latitude steppe (BSh), mid latitude steppe (BSk), humid subtropical (Cfa, Cwa), marine west coast (Cfb, Cfc), mediterranean (Csa, Csb), humid continental (Dfa, Dfb, Dwa, Dwb), subarctic (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd), tundra (ET), ice cap (EF), and highland (H or F) climates
This document provides descriptions of different climate classifications based on temperature and precipitation patterns. It describes tropical wet (Af), tropical monsoonal (Am), tropical savannah (Aw), low latitude desert (BWh), midlatitude desert (BWk), low latitude steppe (BSh), mid latitude steppe (BSk), humid subtropical (Cfa, Cwa), marine west coast (Cfb, Cfc), mediterranean (Csa, Csb), humid continental (Dfa, Dfb, Dwa, Dwb), subarctic (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd), tundra (ET), ice cap (EF), and highland (H or F) climates
A climograph combines a line graph of mean monthly temperature
with a bar graph of total monthly precipitation. These graphs are
useful in analyzing climate statistics to determine the climate classification. A Climates
Description: tropical wet (Af) [tropical rainforest]--hot humid wet all
year-- > 2.4" (6 cm) per month; MONOTONOUS Note: The high temperature with little variation and notable precipitation every month.
Description: tropical monsoonal (Am)--short dry season, very wet
rainy season with high concentration in a few months--at least one month under 2.4" (6 cm) Note: The high temperature with little to small amounts of variation and a short time with low precipitation but excessively heavy precipitation for part of the year that compensates for the short drought period.
Description: tropical savannah (Aw)--hot, humid but dry season in
winter and longer;--at least one month under 2.4" (6 cm)--most extensive A climate Note: The high temperatures with a small variation and a dry season without a very heavy period compensating for the dry season.
B Climates
Description: low latitude desert (BWh) [subtropical]--between 0 and
15" precipitation average annual temperature is over 64.4 0F (18 0 C)--SCARCE; UNRELIABLE; INTENSE PRECIPITATION Note: The very low amounts of precipitation and the high temperatures.
Description: midlatitude desert (BWk) [high latitude]--between 0 and
10" precipitation and average temperature under 64.4 0F Note: The low amount of precipitation and the middle ranging temperatures.
Description: low latitude steppe (BSh) [subtropical]--between 15 and
30" precipitation and average annual temperature over 64.4F
(18C) Note: The lack of precipitation and the high temperatures.
Description: mid latitude steppe (BSk) [middle latitude]--between 10
and 20" precipitation and average annual temperature under 64.4 0F (18 0C) Note: The lack of precipitation and the middle ranging temperatures.
may be dry winter; warmest month averages above 71.6 0F (22 0C) and coldest month averages less than 64.4 0F (18 0C) but greater than 32 0F (0 0C) Note: The middle temperature range with no month below freezing and notable precipitation every month.
Description: marine west coast (Cfb, Cfc)-ocean current moderates,
mild summer and winter; warmest month averages below 71.6F (22C) and coldest month averages less than 64.4F (18C) but greater than 32F (0C) Note: The middle temperatures with a limited amount of variation and the wet conditions.
moist winter or hot summer has drought, winter precipitation but not freezing; sometimes known as dry (summer) subtropical; coldest month averages less than 64.4F (18C) but greater than 32F (0C) difference is the summer drought Note: The middle temperatures with a DROUGHT during the high sun season (summer)
warm summer, precipitation all year; at least four months average over 50F (10C) and coldest month averages below 32F (0C)
Note: The lower temperatures with temperatures below freezing and
notable precipitation all months.
Description: subarctic (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd)--cold and snow, three or
less months average over 50F (10C)--WINTER--taiga, boreal; GREATEST RANGE Note: The large range of temperature with temperatures below freezing some months and notable precipitation all months. E Climates
Description: tundra (ET)--cold, low-growing shrubs and herbs; one
month averages above 32F (0C) but less than 50F (10C); but all average below 50F--TREE LINE; permafrost Note: The cold temperatures with temperatures only reaching above freezing and not to 50 and the lack of precipitation because of these cold temperatures.
Description: ice cap (EF)--all months average below 32F (0C); ice
and snow covered--(Greenland, Antarctica); LOWEST TEMPERATURE
Note: The very cold temperatures and the lack of precipitation because of these cold temperatures.
F or H Climate
Description: highland (H or F)--altitude, exposure (sun and wind),
CHANGABILITY Note: Highland climates are noted for an anomaly in the appearance of the climograph. Because higher elevations have a lower average temperature and a greater range in temperatures as well as experiencing the orographic effects of precipitation, the typical patterns appear disrupted. In this example, the temperatures are fairly uniform but at a cooler temperature than the typical uniform equatorial hot temperatures.