Plant Ecology in a Changing World
  • Topics
    • Topic Overview
    • Biomes and Climates in a Changing World >
      • Adaptation, biodiversity, and environment
      • Climate constrains plant distributions
      • Biome and climate relationships
      • Deserts
      • Grassland, savanna, and shrub biomes
      • Forest biomes
      • Alpine and tundra biomes
    • Plant adaptation >
      • Plant microclimate 1
      • Plant microclimate 2
      • Leaf energy budgets
      • Water movement through the soil-plant continuum
      • Principles of photosynthesis
      • Photosynthesis responses to light and temperature
      • Environmental stresses limit resource capture and use
      • Nutrients in the environment
      • Adaptation to environmental stress
    • Resource Allocation Changes with Environment >
      • Architecture and canopy processes
      • Plant phenology and resource allocation enhance performance
      • Leaf economic spectrum
      • Life history and reproduction
      • Defense against herbivory
      • Plant competition
    • Plant Responses to a Changing World >
      • Global changes occurring today
      • Invasive species
      • Atmospheric CO2 impacts plant
      • C3/C4 photosynthesis and climate
      • Climate change and the global carbon cycle
      • Climate warming and its impacts
    • Engineering Plant Communities >
      • Remember Utah's past and envision our future
      • Restoration ecology
      • Managed ecosystems
      • Utah urban ecology
      • Urban ecological futures
  • Assignments
    • Assignment Overview
    • Discussion
    • Problem sets
    • Ecology & Global Changes
    • Plant ecology policy
    • Defense of policy
    • Exam #1
    • Exam #2
  • Campus
    • Campus Overview
    • Grasses
    • Green infrastructure >
      • GI Overview
      • Stormwater >
        • GI 1
        • GI 2
        • GI 3
        • GI 4
        • GI 10
      • Green roof
      • Pollinator >
        • Pollinator species
    • Trees of the Wasatch
    • Shrubs of the Wasatch
    • Invasives
  • Biomes
    • Biome Overview
    • Climate diagrams
    • Vegetation sight-seeing trip
    • Biome images
  • Models
  • Lab

Explore climate diagrams from all parts of the world

There are two useful sources for climate diagrams from all around the world - right here at your fingertips!

First, a very useful website to generate climate diagrams for you using global climate datasets is http://climatecharts.net. Here you can search and explore virtually all parts of the world - generating maps and seeing the monthly climate data. N.B., this website uses colors in place of sots and vertical lines to indicate drought and humid periods.


Second,  Walter's 1975 global book of climate diagram maps is the gold standard. However, the book is scarce and largely unavailable to students. However, click below to see climate diagrams maps for locations across each of the continents.​
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia - north
Asia - south
Australia


As you explore climate diagrams for different parts of the world, you will quickly notice that the climate at equivalent latitudes is quite different on the east versus west side of the continent, as shown to the right.

Not surprisingly, when you visit these sites virtually using confluence.org, you notice quite a different in vegetation at the same latitudes!
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If you have the talent and can program in R, then Ben Campbell has created very useful code in R that allow you to generate true Walter climate diagrams.
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah