Unit 16: Humid Mesothermal C Climates

Mediterranean vegetation on Greek island of Crete.

OBJECTIVES• Enhance our understanding of the relatively mild C Climates, which affect the lives of billions of people in these midlatitude zones

• Relate the effects of pressure zones and air masses to the spatial distribution and on-the-ground climographs of the perpetually moist mesothermal climates

• Comprehend the synoptics behind the unique dry-summer climates that have limited spatial extent but whose inhabitants have had a huge impact on world history• Study the unusual dry-winter, “subtropical,” monsoon-like C climates and their surprising climographs

Perpetually moist temperate climates Cf

Cfa climate

Charleston, SC Cfa Shanghai, China Cfa

Humid Subtropical Cfa Climate

Farming areas in similar Cfa climate. On left is SE USA, with large, independent farm, with highway nearby; right is small rectangular plots in east-central China, with water transport.

Marine West Coast Climates (Cfb, Cfc)

Marine West Coast Climate Cfb

Dunmore, SE Ireland

Marine West Coast Climate Cfc

Mediterranean Dry Summer Climate Cs

San Francisco Csb Climate

Temperate Summer-Dry and Winter-Dry Climates, Csa and Cwb