Defining Climate
Climate is affected by several factors
Annual Averages and variations
Climates describe long term weather patterns of an area.
Normals
Data averages on a monthly or annual basis for a period of at least 30 years.
Limitations
Normal is a way to describe how a month or a year or that time period should be.
Cause of Climate
There're very different things that go in to changing a climate: Latitude, topography, closeness of lakes, and oceans availability of oceans, availability of moisture, global wind patterns, ocean currents, and air masses
Topographic
Water heats up AMD cools down slower than land thus large bodies of water affect climate of coastal areas. When its winter the coast is warm when its cold that coast is cooler.
Latitude
Solar radiation cause different types of warmth to come through that particular area.
Air masses
Two of the main causes of weather are the movement and interactions of air masses
Vocabulary
Climatology: Study of earths climate
Normal: Are the standard value of an area
Tropics: The area in between 23.5S and 23.5N is know as the tropics
Temperate zones: lies between 23.5 and 66.5.
Polar zones: Are located from 66.5 N and south pole.
Change?
What if the world warmed up by only 1 or 2 degrees
Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 2°C?