Classification Of The Climate Of The Earth

Climatology is a comparatively new science which has been progressing rapidly in recent decades. Essentially, conceptualization of its subject—“climate”—is not yet complete. The concept of climate has been transforming along with the development of climatology. At the beginning of the new century climatology is in front of necessity to extend the sense of the concept of climate as compared to the definitions of the 1970s, taking into account modern global and regional changes in the atmosphere. In this chapter, when speaking about the climate of a locality, or the climate of the Earth as a whole, we shall mean the naturally conditioned regime that creates the continuing sequence of weather.