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Attempt at a Classification of Climate on a Physiographic Basis

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Climatic Geomorphology

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In place of the ancient’s division of the earth’s surface into parallel climatic zones based solely on latitude, there have been recent attempts at climatic classification which are based on temperature and precipitation, although the actual delineation of the individual climatic regions has been undertaken from many different standpoints.

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Edward Derbyshire

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Penck, A. (1973). Attempt at a Classification of Climate on a Physiographic Basis. In: Derbyshire, E. (eds) Climatic Geomorphology. The Geographical Readings Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15508-8_3

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