Countries in Western Europe and Their Major Climate Type
Austria's major climate type is mostly humid continental and highlands toward the bottom left.
Belgium's major climate type is humid oceanic.
France's major climate type is humid oceanic and subtropical dry summer towards the bottom right.
Germany's major climate type is humid oceanic toward the left and humid continental towards the right.
Liechtenstein major climate type is partly humid oceanic and highlands.
Luxembourg major climate type is humid oceanic.
Monaco major climate type is subtropical dry summer.
Netherlands major climate type is humid oceanic.
Switzerland major climate type is humid oceanic toward the top and highlands toward the bottom.
Belgium's major climate type is humid oceanic.
France's major climate type is humid oceanic and subtropical dry summer towards the bottom right.
Germany's major climate type is humid oceanic toward the left and humid continental towards the right.
Liechtenstein major climate type is partly humid oceanic and highlands.
Luxembourg major climate type is humid oceanic.
Monaco major climate type is subtropical dry summer.
Netherlands major climate type is humid oceanic.
Switzerland major climate type is humid oceanic toward the top and highlands toward the bottom.
Specific Factors Affecting Climate and Temperature-Altitudinal Zones in Western Europe
The western parts of Europe has a mild, generally humid climate, influenced by the North Atlantic Drift, so that winters are less cold than it would otherwise be expected at its latitude. Without the warm North Atlantic Drift, Western Europe would be as cold as Canada. Western Europe is also subject to the influence of prevailing western winds from the Atlantic Ocean. Most of Europe enjoys a mild climate due to the Atlantic Ocean's warm Gulf Stream current in which it exerts a moderating effect in most of the countries in Western Europe. Including Europe’s landforms such as mountain ranges and the changes in attitudes, the climates of these areas are always changing.
How Climates Affects Settlement Patterns and How Humans Adapt to Western Europe
Climate affects settlement patterns in many ways. It is important when it comes to settlement because it affects the vegetation and agriculture. These things are key to settlement because it defines what the people's harvest, their crops, and their way of transportation. With the west coast of Western Europe being considered as a humid oceanic climate because of its latitude, its location near a large water source, its regularly precipitation rate and the climate ranging from cool summer to cool but not cold winters, the people of this region do not have to worry or adapt to the need of sources of water. Neither do they have to worry or adapt to their crops dying because of the extreme humidity and freezing temperature. But with global warming and other environmental factors, the climate is slowly changing giving people the need to adapt to these new effects.
Analysis of 3 Climographs of Major Cities
This Paris climograph shows that Paris typically has a constant rate of precipitation that ranges with 40 mm to 65 mm and ranges between 10 to 20 days each month. It can also be seen that the lowest temperature is during winter time and the highest is during summer time. The temperature doesn't drop down below 0 and doesn't go any higher then 25 Celsius.
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This climograph of Amsterdam, Netherlands shows that precipitation ranges from between 44 mm to 87 mm with the highest amount of precipitation in August and the lowest in March. It also shows that the lowest temperature drops down below 0 and goes slightly in the negative to -1 Celsius around winter and goes up to 22 Celsius around the months of July and August. It points out that the percentage of humidity is higher with a lower temperature and lower with a higher temperature and the hours in the day decrease during winter time and increase during summer time. And it can be seen that with the lower temperature, the days with frost increase and it decrease with the higher temperature.
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One of the things that can be analyzed from the climograph is that precipitation ranges from about 57 mm to 97 mm and that the month of June had the highest amount precipitation amount and February had the least. The graph shows that in Essen, Germany, there isn't a constant or steady rate of precipitation. It can be seen that it is the hottest around summer time and the coldest during winter time and that the hours in the day decrease in the winter as well and increase in the summer.
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