Teuling, A. J (2011) Technical note: Towards a continuous classification of climate using bivariate colour mapping. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

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Abstract

Climate is often defined in terms of discrete classes. Here I use bivariate colour mapping to show that the global distribution of Ko¨ ppen-Geiger climate classes can largely be reproduced by combining the simple means of two key states of the climate system (i.e. air temperature and rela- tive humidity). This allows for a classification that is not only continuous in space, but can be applied at and transferred be- tween timescales ranging from days to decades.

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