The climate of Chile

What is it about?

The Köppen–Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. The study climatic based on a high-resolution gridded data set. The results indicate that the climates of continental Chile are essentially arid, temperate and polar, the latter due to the elevation of the Andes. The predominant climates are high tundra and mediterranean. We have concluded that the use of climate surfaces enables the development of new classifications and indices as a function of scale. With respect to latitude, the climates of northern Chile are arid due to the Atacama Desert, and those of southern Chile are temperate, ranging from mediterranean to marine west coast.

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Why is it important?

Update the types of climates in Chile and define the classification rules according to Köppen–Geiger

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