GPHY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tundra, Rain Shadow, Polar Front

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Paul M Treitz

Document Summary

Average weather of a region over long periods of ime (30 years) Long cold winters and short cool summers. Prone to forest ires in the summer. Dominated by cp and ca air masses. Where mountains exist there is a lot of rain (orographic efect) Lowland soils have loss of nutrients due to large amounts of rain. In the rain shadow of the mountain ranges. Rainfall is mostly convecional and someimes caused by mt air masses that sneak in. Cold winter, warm summer (rains all year) Winters are dominated by cp and ca. Koppen climate system: uses leters to group climates into classes according to predeined values of annual + seasonal temp and precipitaion. Afected by laitude ( insolaion) and coastal-coninental locaion. Afects precipitaion by inluencing moisture capacity (warm air holds more water than cold) Over open water the air picks up the moisture, moves the dumps it. Since 1958 the co2 concentraion has coninually gone upward.