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Global Climate Systems
concepts
key learNING
After reading the chapter, you should be able to:
• Define climate and climatology, and review the principal components of earth’s climate system.
• Describe climate classification systems, list the main categories of world climates, and locate the regions characterised by each climate type on a world map.
• Discuss the subcategories of the six world climate groups, including their causal factors.
• Explain the precipitation and moisture-efficiency criteria used to classify the arid and semiarid climates.
Most of Indonesia lies between 5° N and 10° S latitude, and re- ceives rain throughout the year, making it part of the tropical rain forest climate region. The Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, seen here with the volcanic island of Ternate in the distance, once were the world’s largest producer of cloves. In 2011, Ternate’s Mount Gamalama erupted, closing the airport and causing thousands of residents to evacuate, but caused no fatalities. [Fadil/Corbis.]
