Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile
The updated Köppen–Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate surfaces at a scale of 1:1,500,000. The results indicate that the climates of co...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:13:y:2017:i:2:p:66-73 2023-05-15T18:40:18+02:00 Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile Pablo Sarricolea Mariajosé Herrera-Ossandon Óliver Meseguer-Ruiz http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2016.1259592 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2016.1259592 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:32:54Z The updated Köppen–Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate surfaces at a scale of 1:1,500,000. The results indicate that the climates of continental Chile are essentially arid (B), temperate (C) and polar (E), the latter due to the elevation of the Andes. The predominant climates are high tundra (ET) and mediterranean (Cs). We have concluded that the use of climate surfaces enables the development of new classifications and indices as a function of scale. With respect to latitude, the climates of northern Chile are arid due to the Atacama Desert, and those of southern Chile are temperate, ranging from mediterranean to marine west coast. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Geiger ENVELOPE(-62.900,-62.900,-64.300,-64.300) |
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The updated Köppen–Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate surfaces at a scale of 1:1,500,000. The results indicate that the climates of continental Chile are essentially arid (B), temperate (C) and polar (E), the latter due to the elevation of the Andes. The predominant climates are high tundra (ET) and mediterranean (Cs). We have concluded that the use of climate surfaces enables the development of new classifications and indices as a function of scale. With respect to latitude, the climates of northern Chile are arid due to the Atacama Desert, and those of southern Chile are temperate, ranging from mediterranean to marine west coast. |
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Pablo Sarricolea Mariajosé Herrera-Ossandon Óliver Meseguer-Ruiz |
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Pablo Sarricolea Mariajosé Herrera-Ossandon Óliver Meseguer-Ruiz Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile |
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Pablo Sarricolea Mariajosé Herrera-Ossandon Óliver Meseguer-Ruiz |
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Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile |
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Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile |
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