World Climates Tropical Wet Characteristics Always hot rains

World Climates

Tropical Wet • Characteristics – Always hot – rains daily

Tropical Wet and Dry • Characteristics – Rainy – warm summers – dry, cool winters

Semiarid • Characteristics – Little precipitation – mild to cold winters (can snow) – interior of continents

Desert • Characteristics – Less than 10 inches per year of precipitation

Mediterranean • Characteristics – Dry, hot summers – cool, rainy winters… – usually around Med Sea

Marine West Coast • Characteristics – Cloudy – Damp – precipitation pretty much year round

Humid Subtropical • Characteristics – Long summers- heat and humidity – prone to hurricanes – mild to cool winters

Humid Continental • Characteristics – Great variety in temperature and precipitation – all four seasons

Subarctic • Characteristics – Huge temperature variations – short, cool summers – very cold winters – taiga forests

Tundra • Characteristics – Little precipitation – permafrost (perm frozen ground) – cold summer

Ice Cap • Characteristics – Permanently freezing temperatures, so cold it rarely snows – polar desert

Highlands • Characteristics – Varies due to all factors – Cold as elevation increases

D Tropical Wet Belem, Brazil Elev: 42 ft Lat: 01 o 27' S Long: 48 o 29'W • LACEMOPS – Latitude – warm ocean currents – winds moving air masses

C Tropical Wet & Dry Mexico City, Mexico Elev: 7340 ft Lat: 19 o 26' N Long: 99 o 04'W • LACEMOPS – Latitude – warm ocean currents – winds moving air masses

K Semiarid Phoenix, Az. Elev: 1107 ft Lat: 33 o. N Long: 112 o. W • LACEMOPS – Continentality – winds moving apart at horse latitudes – cold ocean currents – mountain barriers

H Desert Cairo, Egypt Elev: 381 ft Lat: 29 o. N Long: 31 o. E • LACEMOPS – Continentality – winds moving apart at horse latitudes – cold ocean currents – mountain barriers

E Mediterranean Athens, Greece Elev: 351 ft Lat: 37 o N Long: 23 o E • LACEMOPS – Latitude – ocean currents – air masses

F Marine West Coast London, England Elev: 149 ft Lat: 51 o. N Long: 00 o • LACEMOPS – Warm winds – cold ocean currents (storms) – Continentality (moderates)

L Humid Subtropical Buenos Aires, Argentina Elev: 89 ft Lat: 34 o 33' S Long: 58 o 29'W • LACEMOPS – Latitude – warm ocean currents meet high pressure with heavy cold air (storms)

J Humid Continental Minneapolis, Minnesota Elev: 686 ft Lat: 45 o. N Long: 93 o. W • LACEMOPS – Latitude, – continentality (farther away from water) – air masses chilled by Arctic ice and snow collide with tropical air masses (storms, tornadoes)

B Subarctic Arkhangelsk, Russia Elev: 13 ft Lat: 65° N, Long: 41° W • LACEMOPS – Latitude – polar winds and cold air masses – Continentality, (extreme coldness b/c no water to moderate)

A Tundra Barrow, Alaska Elev: 10 ft Lat: 71° N, Long: 157° W • LACEMOPS – Latitude – polar air masses – cold ocean currents (dry, little precipitation)

I Ice Cap Scott Base, Antarctica Elev: 52 Long: 166 o. E ft Lat: 77 o. S • LACEMOPS – Latitude – polar air masses – cold ocean currents (dry, little precipitation)

G Highlands La Paz, Bolivia Elev: 11, 975 ft Lat: 17 o. S Long: 68 o. W • LACEMOPS – Elevation – Latitude – Winds – ocean currents (dry or wet)