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Describe latitudinal distribution of Köppen’s classification of world climate.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Climatology

Wladimir Köppen, the German-Russian climatologist-botanist, published his first full scheme in 1900, built on the five plant groups of the botanist Alphonse de Candolle (1874), and revised it chiefly in 1918 and 1936; Rudolf Geiger's later revisions gave the standard Köppen–Geiger system.

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  • The Thresholds Behind the Latitudinal Pattern
  • Latitudinal Sequence at a Glance
  • Group-by-Group Distribution
  • A — tropical humid
  • B — dry
  • C — warm temperate
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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