Module:Sandbox/Erutuon/Climate/doc

Usage

Exports a function that calculates the Köppen climate classification of monthly average temperature and precipitation data in degrees Celsius and millimeters, based on the formulas described in the Wikipedia article.

Function

Koeppen_template

Parameters:

1, 2

Temperatures and precipitation figures (12, one per month), separated by any characters that are not digits (0-9), hyphen-minuses (-), or periods (.).

alt_CD

Use -3 °C as the dividing line between C and D climates. The default is 0 °C.

alt_hk

Cold semi-arid and arid climates (last letter k) have mean annual temperatures below 18 °C. The default is that they have a minimum monthly average temperature below 0 °C.

alt_w

Dry-winter climates (last letter w) have more than 70% of precipitation in high-sun half of year. Default is that wettest summer month has ten times as much precipitation as driest winter month.

Examples

• Key West:
• Lagos, Nigeria:
• Cheyenne:
• Leh, India:
• Lima:
• Phoenix:
• Los Angeles, California:
• New York, New York:
• Boone, North Carolina:
• Quito:
• Balmaceda:
• Ushuaia:
• Seoul:
• Denver:
• St. Petersburg:
• Vladivostok:
• Anchorage:
• Fairbanks:
• Mount Washington, New Hampshire:
• Alert:
• McMurdo Sound: