4 Geography · 4.1.5 Weather systems and world climates
4.1.5.8 Köppen climate classification: scheme and symbols
Köppen's scheme sorts the world's climates into five major groups and a highland group, using capital letters for groups and small letters for seasonal rain and temperature, all defined by mean monthly temperature and precipitation that match the pattern of natural vegetation.
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Key terms
- Köppen
- Koeppen
- empirical classification
- genetic classification
- applied classification
- climate groups A B C D E H
- Af
- Am
- Aw
- BWh
- BSh
- BWk
- BSk
- Cfa
- Cfb
- Cs
- Cwa
- Df
- Dw
- ET
- EF
- small letters f m w s
- Thornthwaite
- climate change in the past
- Milankovitch
- sunspots
- Little Ice Age
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