The Koppen Climate Classification System provides us with a balanced approach to differentiating climates across the face of the Earth. It offers a descriptive classification of world climates and brilliantly negotiates the razor thin gap between simplicity and complexity. With this system the climates of the world are broken up into 6 broad groupings that can be further defined and specified, these broad groupings are: A - Tropical, C - Mesothermal, D - Microthermal, E - Polar, B - Dry, H - Highland. Various factors influence the climate in a given area, and those are factors that the Koppen Classification System use to distinguish one climate from another. There are seven of these controlling factors: 1) Latitude, Location of global high and low pressure zones, 3) Heat exchange from ocean currents, 4) Altitude, 5) Air mass influences and pattern of prevailing winds, 6) Distribution of land and sea, and 7) Topogrpahy. This picture is of me in the H - Highlands climate, which are denoted by a climate of variability due to altitude and aspect variation.
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