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38 Cards in this Set
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What is the classification of climate based on?
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Mean annual temperature and precipatation, mean of montly records throughout the year
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Tropical Rainforest: Location?
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Along the Equatorial belt 0-10 degree latitude. South America, Africa, East Indies
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Tropical Rainforet-Mechanism?
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ITCZ all year which means a low pressure system
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Tropical Rainforest: Characteristics?
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Hot, humid weather year round, constant warm temperature, More varation between day and night, daily afternoon thunderstroms
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Tropical Moonsoon: Location?
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Along tropical coastlines, especaially in Asia
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Tropical Moonsons: What controls the moonsoons?
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Large scale sea breezes, and temperature.
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Tropical Moonsoons: Mechanisms
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ITCZ in summer, STHP in winter. Intense Solar heating year round
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TMoonsoons: Characteristics
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Hot year round, little variation b/c it is close to the equator. Cooler when moonsoons come b/c of cloud cover. Clear wet season, dry season. Wet season is in the summer, Dry in the winter
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Savanna: Location?
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10-20 degrees latitude, poleward of tropical rainforest
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Savanna: Mechanisms?
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ITCZ in the summer, STHP in winter. Intense solar heating year round
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Savanna: Characteristics?
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Rainy summers, dry winters. Temp maxiumum is at the end of the dry season. Rainy season cooler
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Subtropical Deserts: Location?
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20-30 degrees latitude, west side of continents, and stable side opf STHP
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Suptropcial Deserts: Mechanisms?
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STHP all year round, so stable condition. Max temps on earth exist here
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Subtropical Deserts: Characteristics?
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hot summer mild winter little precipatation
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Deserts vs. Steppes?
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Low rainfall in deserts, steppes are semiarid areas with more rainfall then deserts. AKA paries
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Humid Subtropical: Location?
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30-40 degrees latitude. ATHENS, GA! East side of the contient
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Humid Subtropical: Mechanisms
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PFW in the winter, STHP in thes summer
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HSubtropical: Characteristics?
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Hot, humid summers, mild winters. Convective rainfall in the summer (thunderstorms) and frontal rainfall in winter (cyclonic thundershowers) No pronounced dry season rain year round. Driest in autumn
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Mediterranean
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Drier than Humid Subtropics on the stable side of th STHP
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Mediterranean: location?
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30-40 degrees latitude. Most extensive in Europe, West coast of contients. Little mt ranges allow this climate to move inland
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Mediterranean: Mechanisms
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Stable side of STHP
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Mediterranean: Characteristics
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hot, dry summers, mild winters with frontal rainfall
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Meditteranean examples?
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San Frisco, Sevilla, Spain
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Humid Continental: Location?
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leeward side of the mts. drier than the windward 40-50 degrees latitude in the USA and Eurasia
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Humid Continetal: Mechanisms?
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PFW with cycolonic storms
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HContinental: Characteristics?
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Warm, humid summer, cold winters. Examples Include New York., Chicago, Moscow, Russia. Summers are wetter.
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Maine West Coast: Location?
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Windward coast 40-60 degree latitude, Most extensive in Europe
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MWCoast: Mechanisms?
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PFW creating a maritime climate with no dry season
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MWCoast: Characteristics?
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warm summer, mild winters
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Mid latitude Desert and Steppes: location?
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N and S America, 40-50 degree latitude. Example, Great Basin Desert with Sierra Nevada to the west, Rocky Mts to the east blocking parcipation
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Midlatidude Desert and Steppes: Mechanisms?
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Rainshadow effect
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Mid Latitude Desert: Characteristics?
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Very warm summers, cold winters and dry year round very little rainfall
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Subartic: Location?
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50-65 degrees N Canada and Russia
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Subartic: Mechanisms?
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PFW in summer: cyclonic rainfall, PHP: very cold, dry and stable
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Subartic Characteristics?
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warm summers, bitter cold winters East Siberia with a dramatic change in temperatures
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Tundra
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65-90 degree latitdude, PHP, brief thaw in summer, low rainfall, low evaporation
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Icecap
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Greenland, and Anatartica, PHP, very cold winters and slighly warmer summers. Low snowfall, evaporation is low
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Highland
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Major mt ranges of the world such as the Andes, Orographic lifiting, Enviro lapse rate, very cold, glaciers, summers may warm to apline tundra. Apline is at a high elevation, lower latitude, Artic is the opposiate
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