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Climate Families: Understanding Different Climates Worldwide

Explore the various climate families, from tropical to polar, and their characteristics. Understand how temperature and precipitation influence vegetation in different regions. Discover climographs depicting tropical rainforests, savannas, deserts, and more.

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Climate Families: Understanding Different Climates Worldwide

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  1. Climate Family Climographs& Locations Developed by Joe Naumann

  2. A family of climates - Tropical • Warm all months • Diurnal temperature range is usually greater than the range of average monthly temperatures. • Seasons based on precipitation, not on temperature. • Differences in typical vegetation is based on differences of available precipitation.

  3. Climograph–Af (Tropical Rainforest)

  4. Tropical Rainforest Map

  5. Am – Tropical Monsoon • Not given on many maps – often combined with the tropical rainforest (Af) • Temperatures are very similar to Af • Precipitation differs: there is a short dry season that is long enough to allow some deciduous trees to be part of the forest.

  6. Tropical Monsoon Climate

  7. Climograph – Aw (tropical Savanna)

  8. Savanna Locations

  9. B Family – Dry Climates • The most important characteristic is the insufficiency of precipitation for any kind of continuous vegetation cover. • Precipitation is also usually unreliable. • Temperatures are usually not considered • High altitude & high latitude deserts (Bwk) • High altitude & high latitude steppe (Bsk) • Low latitude deserts (Bwh) • Low latitude steppe (Bsh) • Temperatures – k = cold & h = hot

  10. Climograph – BW (Desert – Arid)

  11. Desert Locations

  12. Climagraph – Bs (Steppe or Semiarid)

  13. Steppe (Semi-arid) Locations

  14. C Family – 4 season temperate • All members have four distinct seasons based primarily on temperature differences • The receive enough precipitation to support some type of forest vegetation (Maquis of the Mediterranean is the result of human action of long ago – deforestation by the Romans) • Summers can be very hot, but winters are mild compared to those of the D climates.

  15. C Family of Climates

  16. Climagraph – Cfa (Humid subtropical) St. Louis is near the northern border of Cfa

  17. Climagraph – Cs (Mediterranean)

  18. Climagraph – Cfb (Marine West Coast)

  19. D Family – Humid Continental • The continental influence results in seasonal temperature extremes • Four seasons, but the summer gets shorter and cooler as one progresses from Dfa to Dfd. • Found in the higher latitudes; therefore, there are none in the southern hemisphere. There are no huge continental landmasses in those latitudes in the southern hemisphere. • Sufficient precipitation to support some type of forest vegetation.

  20. D Family of Climates

  21. Climagraph – Dfa (Humid Continental – hot summer) St. Louis is near the southern border of Dfa

  22. Climograph – Dfb (Humid Continental – cold winter)

  23. Dfc or Dfd -- Siberia

  24. Moving north into Canada colder D climates • Dfc • Dfd – coldest of the D family • D climates found in Asia, particularly Siberia (w stands for dry winter) • Dwa • Dwb • Dwc • Dwd

  25. E Family – Polar climates • Here the temperatures do not get warm enough to provide a reasonable growing season. Available precipitation is insufficient to support any type of forest. • The ET climate (tundra) does support grasses, herbaceous plants, mosses, and lichens in the few months that might avearge above freezing. • The EF climates never have average temperatures above freezing, so there is no vegetation.

  26. Climagraph – ET (Subarctic)

  27. Tundra Locations

  28. Permafrost

  29. EF - Permanent Ice and Snow • Glacial areas such as mountain glaciers or continental glaciers (Antarctica & Greenland) • No vegetation or permanent human habitation.

  30. EF climate

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