The Subtropical Question - More on Oceanic and Humid Subtropical Climates

New York is Subtropical. Really? According to the Koppen Climate Classification, it has the same Humid Subtropical Climate as New Orleans in the Deep South. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? And what about Bogota, Colombia having the same climate as London. That can't be right, surely. But Koppen put them both in the same Oceanic Climate Zone. In this video I break apart these zones into different sub-types based upon winter temperatures.

🕐CHAPTERS🕖
👉0:00 Introduction and Titles
👉1:50 Koppen Cfa and Cfb Definition
👉3:02 South-East USA, NYC vs New Orleans
👉4:45 Trewartha Climate Classification
👉6:14 A Solution to the Cfa Problem
👉7:02 Cool vs Mild Winters for Cfa Globally
👉8:52 Oceanic Cool vs Mild Winter
👉10:50 Subtropical Highland Climate
👉11:46 Summary and Outro

When Vladimir Koppen developed his famous climate classification, 90% of the Earth was covered well. But problems lie in the Humid Subtropical (Cfa) Climate, where many feel that it is too broad a definition, with cities like New York and New Orleans being in the same climate zone.

I have identified with precision the problem with this climate zone - it is the difference in winter temperatures. New York has cool winters while New Orleans is mild during the colder season. In an original piece of research, I have split the Cfa zone globally into areas of cool and mild winters, and present these in a detailed map.

A similar problem occurs in the Oceanic (Cfb) climate zone, where London and Paris, with their chilly winters, are classified in the same zone as Melbourne and Auckland with their mild winters, and even worse, with Subtropical Highland cities like Bogota and Quito, which experience no winter. Again, here, I break down the Oceanic climate zone into cool and mild winters, and additionally clarifying the difference between these and the Subtropical Highland climate.

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