Abstract
Climate is often defined in terms of discrete classes. Here I use bivariate colour mapping
to show that the global distribution of K¨oppen-Geiger climate classes can largely
be reproduced by combining the simple means of two key states of the climate system
5 (i.e., air temperature and relative humidity). This allows for a classification that is not
only continuous in space, but can be applied at and transferred between timescales
ranging from minutes to decades.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3071-3075 |
Journal | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |
Volume | 15 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- world
- temperature
- variability