Köppen Climate Types in Observed and Simulated Climates

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• 作者：Jaroslava Kalvová ; Tomá? Halenka ; Klára Bezpalcová and Ivana Neme?ová
• 关键词：K&ouml ; ppen climate classification ; general circulation models ; ECHAM4 ; HadCM2 ; climate projections
• 刊名：Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
• 出版年：2003
• 出版时间：2003
• 年：2003
• 卷：47
• 期：1
• 页码：185-202
• 全文大小：4.31 MB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geophysics and Geodesy
  Structural Geology
  Meteorology and Climatology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1626

文摘

The Köppen climate classification was applied to the observed gridded climatological sets and the outputs of four general circulation models (GCMs) over the continents of the Earth. All data had been acquired via the Data Distribution Centre established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The ability of the GCMs to simulate the Köppen climate zones identified in the real data was explored and possible future (global warming) changes in the climate types' distribution for each GCM were assessed. Differences in the area distributions derived from the GCMs' recent climate simulations give evidence about uncertainties generally involved in climate models. As to the global warming simulations, all GCM projections of warming climate (horizon 2050) show that the zones representing tropical rain climates and dry climates become larger, and the zones identified with boreal forest and snow climates together with the polar climates are smaller.