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| What is the long-term statistical properties of the atmosphere for an area? |
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| What are the fundamental variables for climate analysis? |
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| Temperature and Precipitation |
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What are the following:
Latitude
Change Of Solar Radiation Input
Land vs Ocean
Altitude and Elevation
Atmospheric Circulations
Oceanic Circulations |
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What are based on the following properties:
Temperature
Precipitation
Air Mass Types
Seasonal Variations In Water Balance For An Area |
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| What is based on natural vegetation types as indicators of of average temperature and precipitation? |
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| Koeppen Climate Classification |
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| What makes Severe Midlatitude Climate worse than Mild Midlatitude? |
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| What Climate Classification Is Based Solely on Precipitation Amounts? |
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| Tropical Koeppen Climates are where? |
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| What are the qualities of Tropical Climate? |
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| Warm annual temperatures and with little temperature variation. |
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| What are the qualities of monsoonal climates? |
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| Considered the transition climate between tropical wet and tropical wet dry climates, with varying precipitation rates. |
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| What is the primary control for Mild Midlatitude climates? |
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| What are some of the qualities of Severe Midlatitude Cyclones? |
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| Huge swings in temperature, high latitude, not a lot of precipitation. |
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What are the following:
1.) The uneven distribution of land and ocean.
2) The role of elevation, with high-elevation locations colder than would be expected solely on the basis of latitude.
3) Prevailing atmospheric and ocean circulations for many places a dominant influence. |
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| The Three Controlling Factors Of Climate |
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| Describe Tropical Climate |
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| Climates in which the average temperature for all months is greater than 18 C. |
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| Potential evaporation exceeds precipitation. |
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| Describe Mild Midlatitude Climate |
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| The coolest month of the year had an average temperature higher than -3C but below 18C. |
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| Describe Severe Midlatitude Climate |
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| Winters have at least occasional snow cover, with the coldest month having a mean temperature below -3 C. Summers are typically mild. |
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| All months have mean temperatures below 10 C. |
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| Sunspots correlate to what? |
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| More Solar Activity Correlates To What? |
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| What generates Solar Flares? |
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| Sunspot numbers increase and decrease over a cycle of how many years? |
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| Sunspots can last for how long? |
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| How much hotter does the sun become with solar activity is increased? |
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| The absence of sunspots was well observed when? |
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| What coincided with a cool climatic period in Europe and North America? |
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| The place in the orbit closest to the sun. |
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| What refer to regular natural variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun? |
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| What are changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun every 100,000 years? |
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| What is the wobbling of the Earth's axis of rotation every 22,000 years? |
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| What are changes in the tilt of Earth's axis every 41,000 years? |
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| How Do Volcanoes Effect Climate? |
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Volcanic ejecta may block sunlight.
Multiple eruptions in a short time period can have long term effects on climate. |
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| How Tectonic Plates Affect Climate? |
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| Mountain building and land erosion affect climate over the course of billions of years. |
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