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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(Rare.) The categorizing of one year's weather at a given locality according to one of the climatic classifications.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Thus, if the weather of a given year at a certain [[station]] was unusually mild and rainy, falling within (for example) K& | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(Rare.) The categorizing of one year's weather at a given locality according to one of the climatic classifications.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Thus, if the weather of a given year at a certain [[station]] was unusually mild and rainy, falling within (for example) Köppen's definition of a [[tropical climate]], that station is said to have had a "tropical year," whatever its [[normal]] classification.</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Köppen, W. P., and R. Geiger 1930–1939. Handbuch der Klimatologie. Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 6 vols. </div><br/> | ||
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climatic year
(Rare.) The categorizing of one year's weather at a given locality according to one of the climatic classifications.
Thus, if the weather of a given year at a certain station was unusually mild and rainy, falling within (for example) Köppen's definition of a tropical climate, that station is said to have had a "tropical year," whatever its normal classification.
Köppen, W. P., and R. Geiger 1930–1939. Handbuch der Klimatologie. Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 6 vols.
