Climate and the General Circulation

Earth - Land of many climates

Climatology, the study of climate, is the analysis of long-term weather patterns over time and space to find areas of similar weather statistics.

Such weather observations, gathered simultaneously from different points within a region, are plotted on maps and are compared to identify climatic regions.

Global climate patterns

Climographs are presented below for cities that exemplify particular climates.

The climographs below show monthly monthly temperature and precipitation, location coordinates, average annual temperature, total annual precipitation, elevation, annual temperature range, annual hours of sunshine (if available), and a location map.

Tropical rain forest climate (Uaupes, Brazil)	Tropical monsoon climate (Yangon, Myanmar,Burma)
Humid continental hot-summer climates	Humid continental cool-summer climate
Hot low-latitude steppe climate
Hot low-latitude desert climate	Cold midlatitude desert climate
Extreme subartic winter-dry climate	Subartic climate
Mediterranean climates (Seville, Spain; San Francisco)	Southern Hemisphere marine west coast climate and Climate of the Appalachians
Humid subtropical winter-dry climate (Chengdu, China)	Humid subtropical climate (Nagasaki, Japan)