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World Climatic Types

World Climatic Types Climate Zone Equatorial zone Latitude 0deg - 10degN and S Climate Type 1. Hot wet equatorial 2. (a) Tropical Monsoon (b) Tropical Marine 3. Sudan Type 4. Desert : (a) Sahara type (b) Midlatitude type 5. Western Margin (mediterranea n types) Warm Temperate zone 6. Central Continental (Steppe type) 7. Eastern More rain in autumn and winter, 30 inches deciduous forests rainfall

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World Climatic Types

World Climatic Types Climate Zone Equatorial zone Latitude 0deg - 10degN and S Climate Type 1. Hot wet equatorial 2. (a) Tropical Monsoon (b) Tropical Marine 3. Sudan Type 4. Desert : (a) Sahara type (b) Midlatitude type 5. Western Margin (mediterranea n types) Warm Temperate zone 6. Central Continental (Steppe type) 7. Eastern More rain in autumn and winter, 30 inches deciduous forests rainfall

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World Climatic Types

Climate Zone Latitude Climate Type Rainfall Regime Natural Veg


0° - 10°N 1. Hot wet Rainfall all year Equatorial rain
Equatorial zone
and S equatorial round forests
2. (a) Tropical Heavy summer
Monsoon rain Much Monsoon
summer rain 70 forests
(b) Tropical
inches
Marine
10° - 30°N
Hot zone Rain mainly in Savanna
and S 3. Sudan Type summer 30 (Tropical
inches grassland)
4. Desert : (a) Desert
Little rain : 5
Sahara type (b) vegetation and
inches
Mid-latitude type scrub
5. Western Margin Mediterranean
Winter rain : 35
(Mediterranean forests and
inches
types) shrub
6. Central Steppe or
Light summer
Warm Continental temperate
30°-45°N rain : 20 inches
Temperate (Steppe type) grassland
and S
zone 7. Eastern Margin
(a) China type Heavier summer Warm, wet
(b) Gulf type rain: 45 inches forests bamboo

(c) Natal type


More rain in
8. Western Margin Deciduous
autumn and
(British type) forests
winter, 30 inches

Cool 9. Central Evergreen


48°65°N Light summer
Temperate Continental coniferous
and S rain : 25 inches
zone (Siberian type) forests

10. Eastern Moderate Mixed forests


Margin summer rain 40 (Coniferous and
(Laurentian type) inches deciduous)
Very light
65°-90°N Tundra, mosses
Cold zone 11. Arctic or Polar summer rain 10
and S lichens
inches
Alpine
12. Mountain Heavy rainfall pastures,
Alpine zone  
climate (variable) conifers, fern,
snow

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