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Thawed surface of the permafrost on the tundra in summer, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia.
© John Hartley/NHPA
Köppen climate classification map
The major climatic types are based on patterns of average precipitation, average...
M.C. Peel, B.L. Finlayson, and T.A. McMahon (2007), updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 1633-1644.