SO262, Fall
2009
Koppen Climate In Class Exercise
We will break the class into groups, each of which will prepare a Power Point
discussion of a single climate category in the Koppen classification. Your
presentation will include:
- A map showing the location of the category in the world.
- One of more representative climographs from the United States, showing what conditions are
like, and climographs from both elsewhere in the northern and southern
hemisphere.
- A listing of the rules that determine this category.
- A discussion of why this climate occurs where it does, and what it means
for those areas.
| |
1001 |
3001 |
| A climates (3 categories) |
2 |
3 |
| B climates (4 categories) |
3 |
3 |
| Cf climates (3 categories) |
3 |
3 |
| Cs and Cw climates (4 categories) |
3 |
3 |
| Df climates (4 categories) |
3 |
3 |
| Ds and Dw climates (5 categories) |
3 |
4 |
| E climates (2 categories) |
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Ultimate learning goal:, upon which you will be tested:
- General characteristics of each major category
- Way that temperature and precipitation combine to produce the categories
- General understanding of how the different categories are distributed
over the earth
- Ability to look at a climograph and visualize what conditions at that
location would be like, and where it could be located.
We will do the presentations next Wednesday.
Hints
- Run an UPDATE_PC on your computer.
- Look in the help file of MICRODEM for the climate options.
- If you filter the database, you can display just the climate category
you want. CLASS=D* will show all the D's.
- If you right click on a map or the graph, you can copy it to the
clipboard and then straight into PowerPoint.