Friday, 20 March 2015

COOL TEMPERATE EASTERN MARGIN CLIMATIC REGION OR LAURENTIAN TYPE


COOL TEMPERATE EASTERN MARGIN CLIMATIC REGION OR LAURENTIAN TYPE 

CLIMATIC TYPE 
CHARACTERISTICS
DISTRIBUTION (CONTINENT)
SELECTED STATION (COUNTRY)

Eastern margin (Laurentian type)
Cold dry winters and warm wet summers with a fairly well distributed rainfall in drizzles.
Best developed in North – eastern North America including the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada and the New England States of USA and also in North China, Manchuria, Korea and northern Japan.

Montreal (Canada) New York (USA) and Peking (china).

ARCTIC POLAR OR TUNDRA CLIMATIC REGION


CLIMATIC TYPE
CHARACTERISTICS
DISTRIBUTION (CONTINENT)

SELECTED STATION
Arctic polar (tundra)
Long severe cold winter and brief cool summers with very light precipitation
Barren grounds of Northern Canada and Alaska, coastal strip of Greenland and the arctic sea board of Eurasia.

Upernavik (Greenland)

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