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Climate Bioclimate and Land Use of Northwest Afri-Wageningen University and Research 481331
Climate Bioclimate and Land Use of Northwest Afri-Wageningen University and Research 481331
355) the climate is true desert,
Subsdesort climates can be avibliwided ints ansantusted (250¢x-<300) ant
attenuated (200-2250).
Climates in Group I, with dry seasons of fron 1 to 8 months, are classed
as Mediterranean if the dry seston coincides with tho period of longest day~
Light or tropiosl if it ooincidce with the period of shortest daylight. Thus
in thie classifiostion Mediterranoan” 1a in somo sort tho converse of "tropi~
cal",
CLinstos with two separate dzy oon
no dxy vasons are axcric.
ng azo called bixerio, and those with
‘The Mediterranean clinate ae a whole presents subdivisions according to
‘the valuco of x, We thus gut
a) Xerothernomediterrancan, i.e.) wam and dry vhen 150< x< 2005
b) Thermouediterransan, aubdivided in turn into accentuated with a long
ary season when 125-