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Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification |
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M. C. Peel, B. L. Finlayson, T. A. McMahon |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 11, no. 5 ; Nr. 11, no. 5 (2007-10-11), S.1633-1644 |
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250009473
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Although now over 100 years old, the classification of climate originally
formulated by Wladimir Köppen and modified by his collaborators and
successors, is still in widespread use. It is widely used in teaching school
and undergraduate courses on climate. It is also still in regular use by
researchers across a range of disciplines as a basis for climatic
regionalisation of variables and for assessing the output of global climate
models. Here we have produced a new global map of climate using the
Köppen-Geiger system based on a large global data set of long-term
monthly precipitation and temperature station time series. Climatic
variables used in the Köppen-Geiger system were calculated at each
station and interpolated between stations using a two-dimensional (latitude
and longitude) thin-plate spline with tension onto a 0.1°×0.1°
grid for each continent. We discuss some problems in dealing with sites that
are not uniquely classified into one climate type by the Köppen-Geiger
system and assess the outcomes on a continent by continent basis. Globally
the most common climate type by land area is BWh (14.2%, Hot desert)
followed by Aw (11.5%, Tropical savannah). The updated world
Köppen-Geiger climate map is freely available electronically in the Supplementary Material Section. |
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