GEOG 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Northern Hardwood Forest, Biome, Humid Continental Climate
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Humid continental climates (dfa/dfb: increasing seasonality, westerlies and rossby waves in uence the precipitation and asian monsoon dominates in some locations, winter dry pattern in asia also caused by a strong high pressure system, continentality. Location: poleward of c climates- none in the southern hemisphere because there"s not enough landmass, interior of continents, removed from oceans. Temperature: large range- hot or warm summers, cold winters, a= hot summer, severe winter, b= warm summer, long severe winter. Precipitation: some moisture year round, but not a lot. Biomes: dfb- temperate forests (including temperate needleleaf) transitioning to boreal forest, dfa- temperate forest (northern hardwood) Can be prairie, like the corn belt in the central us. Yellowstone: mix of forests and grasslands and alpine meadows, forests- pine, spruce, r. Tundra and ice cap climates are close to the poles; subarctic is farther from the poles: antarctica is nearly all ice cap.
