Climate Systems and Climate Change
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| Climatology | the study of climate and its variability, analyzes long term weather patterns over time and space and the controls that produce Earth's diverse climatic conditions.
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| Climatic regions | one type of climatic analysis that locates area of similar weather statistics and groups them into...
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| Climates greatly influence... | ecosystems, the natural, self regulating communities formed by plants and animals in their nonliving environment.
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| The principal elements of climate are.. | insolation, temperature, pressure, air masses, and precipitation.
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| Temperature | form a coupling of dynamic forces in the atmosphere to Earth's pattern of atmospheric pressure and resulting global wind and ocean systems.
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| Moisture | the remaining input to climate which is represented by precipitation in all its forms.
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| tow principal climatic components | temperature and precipitation
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| Classification | the process of ordering or grouping data or phenomena into related classes.
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| Classification Categories | the basis of any classification system is the choice of criteria or causative factors used to draw line between categories.
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| Sic basic climate categories | Tropical, Mesothermal, microthermal, Polar,Highland, and Dry.
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| Tropical | rain forest, monsoon, savanna
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| Mesothermal | humid subtropical, marine west coast, mediterranean
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| microthermal | humid continental, subarctic
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| Polar | tundra, ice caps and ice sheets, polar marine
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| Highland | only one climate category is based on moisture efficiency as well as temperature
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| Dry | arid deserts.
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