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climate the total environmental effect of ambient temperature, barometric pressure, radiation, oxygen concentration, water precipitation, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and sunlight hours or cloud cover. Called also weather. climate classes includes tropical, semitropical, desert, arid, semiarid, temperate, subarctic, arctic, polar. climate envelope the range of climatic variation in which a species can persist in the face of competitors, predators and disease. climate impact includes overall statements of total effect of climate such as wind-chill index, temperature-humidity index, effective temperature. |
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