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- Climate is weather over time
- Climatology is the study of climate
- Climatic regions are areas with similar weather statistics
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- Insolation
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Air Masses
- Precipitation
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- Tropical Climates
- Mesothermal Climates
- Microthermal Climates
- Polar Climates
- Highland Climates
- Dry Arid and Semiarid Climates
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- Tropical Rain Forest: Most near Equator, constantly wet and warm,
dominated by ITCZ precip. For east side of continents, trade winds also
bring moisture.
- Tropical Monsoon: Gen. located on or near coasts, on or near large
continents. Are wet but with a
dry season on 1-4 months. ITCZ and onshore flow bring moisture in high
sun season, low sun season drier.
Dry season ends w/ peak temps.
- Tropical Savanna: Located poleward of Rainforest climate zones. ITCZ
brings rain for 6 months or less per year, high pressure dominates in
dry season.
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- Humid Subtropical Hot-Summer:
generally on east side of continents, either always moist or
winter dry. mT air masses
dominate high sun season, with convectional precipitation, rest of year
mid. lat. cyclones significant.
- Marine West Coast: always wet due
to mid. Lat. cyclones, mild summers, cool winters with mP air
dominant. Located poleward of
Mediterranean Dry-Summer Climates
- Mediterranean Dry-Summer: winter wet, summer drier or very dry. Coastal fogs typical in late spring
through early fall. Winter precip
from mid lat cyclones, summer dry due to dominance of high pressure.
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- Humid Continental Hot-Summer Climates:
located in equatorward of other microthermal climates
- Humid Continental Mild-Summer Climates:
cooler than above due to being at higher latitude
- Subarctic Climates: cooler yet due to more poleward locations than
above, have thin soils due to recent glaciation, most of precip falls in
high sun season.
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- Tundra Climate: permafrost
common. Are in areas experiencing
more climatic warming than other regions
- Ice Cap and Ice Sheet Climates
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- Desert Characteristics: precip < 50% of potential evapotranspiration
- Low-Latitude Hot Desert Climates
- Midlatitude Cold Desert Climates
- Low-Latitude Hot Steppe Climates
- Midlatitude Cold Steppe Climates
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- Global Warming
- Climate Models and Future Temperatures
- Consequences of Global Warming
- Political Action to Slow Global Warming
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