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WARM TEMPERATE EASTERN MARGIN (CHINA) CLIMATE.
DISTRIBUTION◇ On
eastern margin of continents in warm temperate latitudes.
◇ It is climate of most part of china so called
China type climate.
◇ In
S.E. USA bordering
Gulf of mexico, continental heating in summer induces an inflow of air from cooler atlantic ocean. Thus climate resembles china type.
◇ In
southern hemisphere this type of climate experienced in eastern continents of all three continents.
CLIMATE.
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Temperature.
• Typified by a
warm moist summer and Cool, dry winters.
• Mean monthly temperature -
40°F and
78°F.
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Rainfall.
• Rainfall is more than moderate, anything from
25 inches to
60 inches.
•
Uniform distribution of rainfall throughout the year.
CROPPING PATTERNS.◇
South - east china - Rice, tea, mulberries, sericulture.
◇ South - eastern USA - widespread cultivation of maize and cotton in the corn and cotton belts of U.S.A.
◇ South - America - Coffe, maize and dairying.
︎ SOURCE - G.C.LEONG.
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