- Tropical Moist (rainforest): high humidity and rainfall
- Wet-Dry Tropical (savannah): characterized by a wet season and a dry season
- Tropical Monsoon: characterized by high temperatures and a lot of precipitation year-round
- Dry Tropical (desert): intense heat, arid
- Dry Mid-latitude (steppe): dry, semiarid, cold winters
- Mediterranean (chaparral): characterized by a wet winter and a dry summer
- Dry Mid-latitude (grassland): dry, characterized by cold winters and warm summers
- Marine West Coast: characterized by a lot of rain year-round and few temperature extremes
- Moist Continental (deciduous forest): characterized by large temperature changes between seasons
- Boreal Forest (taiga): characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers; rather humid
- Tundra: characterized by long, severe winters
- Highland (alpine): found in mountain ranges and generally take on the characteristics of the next-closest climate
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Climate Types
When you see a climate heading in some of the other posts, this page is the best to refer to to understand what they mean.
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