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Climate feedback parameter
The climate feedback parameter measures how much net radiation at the top of Earth's atmosphere changes per degree of global surface warming, controlling climate sensitivity.
Climate field reconstruction
Climate field reconstruction is the statistical estimation of past, spatially resolved climate variables, such as surface temperature, from sparse natural archives called proxies, first produced in the 1970s.
Climate finance
Climate finance is local, national, or transnational financing from public, private, and alternative sources supporting climate mitigation and adaptation; under the UNFCCC, developed countries are expected to assist developing ones.
Climate Forecast System
The Climate Forecast System (CFS) is a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean-land-sea ice numerical model operated by NCEP for subseasonal and seasonal prediction, with its current version CFSv2 operational since March 2011.
Climate Investment Funds
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are multilateral trust funds, the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund, established in 2008 to finance low-carbon, climate-resilient development in developing countries.
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is New York's 2019 climate law, requiring 85 percent emissions cuts by 2050 and a zero-emission grid by 2040.
Climate normal
A climate normal is a thirty-year average of a weather variable such as temperature or precipitation, used to judge whether current weather is warmer or wetter than typical.
Climate of Africa
The climate of Africa is the set of long-term weather patterns across the continent, ranging from the hyperarid Sahara through humid tropical regimes to winter-rainfall Mediterranean climates of the far north and Cape region.
Climate of Alaska
The climate of Alaska spans temperate maritime south to Arctic north, is divided into four to five regions, and is warming about 50% faster than the contiguous US.
Climate of Antarctica
The climate of Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest on Earth: a polar desert of katabatic winds, sparse snowfall, and a record low of −89.2 °C at Vostok.
Climate of Argentina
The climate of Argentina, also known as the Argentine climate, spans subtropical humid conditions in the northeast, arid mid-latitude steppe, cold Patagonian steppe, and subpolar Tierra del Fuego.
Climate of Australia
The climate of Australia, also called Australian climate, ranges from a monsoonal tropical north to a Mediterranean southwest and temperate southeast, with a dry interior covering most of the landmass.
Climate of Brazil
The climate of Brazil is mostly tropical, ranging from humid equatorial conditions in the Amazon to a semi-arid Northeast prone to recurrent droughts and subtropical conditions in the far south.
Climate of Buenos Aires
The climate of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is humid subtropical, with hot summers, no dry season, and a mean annual temperature of 18.1 °C.
Climate of California
The climate of California spans Mediterranean, steppe, desert, and alpine zones, with precipitation ranging from under 3 inches in Death Valley to over 100 inches near Eureka.
Climate of Chicago
The climate of Chicago, Illinois, is humid continental, with cold winters and warm summers shaped by Lake Michigan's moderating effect, the urban heat island, and midlatitude storm systems.
Climate of Chile
The climate of Chile spans the Atacama Desert in the north, a Mediterranean-type central zone, and cold, wet Patagonia; central Chile has had a prolonged drought since 2010.
Climate of China
The climate of China is dominated by the East Asian monsoon, which brings wet summers and dry winters, with three zones: eastern monsoon, arid northwest, and the cold Qinghai–Tibet Plateau.
Climate of Delhi
The climate of Delhi is monsoon-influenced, semi-arid to humid subtropical, with hot summers around 38 °C, most rain in July and August, and cool winters.
Climate of Dubai
Dubai has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) with very hot, humid summers and warm winters, and scarce rainfall averaging about 97 mm a year, mostly in winter.
Climate of Edmonton
The climate of Edmonton, Alberta is a warm summer continental climate (Köppen Dfb), with short warm summers, long cold winters, modest precipitation, and recent warming faster than the global average.
Climate of Egypt
Egyptian climate is predominantly hot desert, with a Mediterranean climate confined to the northern coast; rainfall is scarce, and agriculture consumes about 80% of available freshwater.
Climate of Europe
The climate of Europe, also called the European climate, spans polar, temperate, continental, and Mediterranean zones shaped by the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream, and it is the world's fastest-warming continent.
Climate of Florida
The climate of Florida, also called Florida's climate, is hot and humid, subtropical in most of the state and tropical in the south, moderated by surrounding ocean waters.
Climate of France
The climate of France spans oceanic, semi-continental, Mediterranean, and mountain zones across metropolitan France, with tropical climates in the overseas territories and observed warming of 1.7 °C since 1900.
Climate of Houston
Houston has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers, mild winters, and heavy year-round rainfall shaped by Galveston Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, and frequent flooding.
Climate of Iceland
The climate of Iceland is a cold-temperate maritime climate, moderated by the Gulf Stream so the island is much milder than its location just south of the Arctic Circle suggests.
Climate of India
The climate of India is dominated by the southwest monsoon from June to September, which supplies about 75 percent of annual rainfall and ranges from desert to Himalayan tundra.
Climate of Indonesia
The climate of Indonesia is almost entirely tropical, with year-round temperatures near 28 °C and wet and dry seasons set by the reversing monsoon winds.
Climate of Iran
The climate of Iran is predominantly arid to semi-arid, with dry climates covering 81 percent of the country and annual precipitation ranging from 50 to 2,000 mm.