WARM TEMPERATE EASTERN MARGIN (CHINA) CLIMATE: UPSC Important Topic| 4 December 2022

 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.

✓Temperature.

• Typified by a warm moist summer and Cool, dry winters.

• Mean monthly temperature – 40°F and 78°F.

✓ 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.