The climate casebook
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City of Fog – The Climate of Lima, Peru
A nation’s capital, a sprawling city of 10 million people. This city lies between some of the highest peaks in the world, and the planet’s…
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The Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification System
In pretty much every area of interest, human beings love to put things into boxes. They love to categorise and classify. From artistic subjects such…
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The Pacific North West Climate
The Pacific North West of the United States and Canada. A wonderland of nature. Epic scenery – breath-taking mountains, endless forests, windswept beaches, even volcanoes.…
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The Asian Monsoon – The World’s Largest Weather System
It’s the world’s largest weather system. Affecting almost half of the world’s population, its seasonal changes in winds and rain determine the cycles of nature…
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Seasons
Searing heat. Freezing ice. Monsoon rains and dusty droughts. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. For hundreds of millions of years they have they have defined the…
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Climate Zone Populations
Humans. They are an interesting species aren’t they? At the time of this production, there are estimated to be 7.7 billion of them roaming around…
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The relative sizes of earth’s climate zones
The Amazon rainforest, the African Savannah, the sands of the Sahara, the prairies of North America , the forests of Siberia, the ice sheet of…
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Habitability, the effect of climate type on population density
In two of the previous climate casebook chapters, we looked at how global population was distributed across each climate zone, along with the relative sizes…
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The climate casebook
A series of individual topics on particular places around the world or more advanced concepts relating to climate. >>> The Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification System
