Admin What are the latitude zones?
Meteorologically significant latitude zones (see Figure 1) include the following:
- low latitudes: 30°S to 30°N latitude (including the equator).
- middle latitudes (or midlatitudes for short): 30° to 60° latitude (in each hemisphere).
- high latitudes: 60° to 90° latitude (in each hemisphere).
What are polar latitudes?
The latitude of the polar circles is + or −90 degrees (which refers to the North and South Pole, respectively) minus the axial tilt (that is, of the Earth’s axis of daily rotation relative to the ecliptic, the plane of the Earth’s orbit).
What are the latitudes of polar climate?
The regions that extend from 66.5 degrees north and south latitude to the North and South Pole respectively are the polar zones.
Where are the subtropical regions of the world located?
Areas of the world with subtropical climates according to Köppen climate classification. The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
What is the minimum temperature for a subtropical climate?
Temperatures. Several methods have been used to define the subtropical climate. In the Trewartha climate classification, a subtropical region should have at least eight months with a mean temperature greater than 10 °C (50.0 °F) and at least one month with a mean temperature under 18 °C (64.4 °F).
What is the difference between the tropics and subtropics?
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly bordered the tropics at latitude 23° 27′ (the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) and the temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes between 35° and 66° 33′), north and south of the Equator .
What is the climate like in the Holdridge subtropical climate?
The Holdridge subtropical climates straddle more or less the warmest subtropical climates and the less warm tropical climates as defined by the Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate classifications.