The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network: Climate

URL: http://www.ecn.ac.uk/Education/climatic_factors.htm

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This tutorial provides a brief overview of the difference between weather and climate, and the factors that affect climates. Factors discussed include distance of an area from the sea, ocean currents, wind direction, relief, proximity to the equator, El Nino and human activities.

Summary

Subject keyword(s)	Astronomy, Atmospheric science, Climate, Climatology, Earth's water, Earth and space science, Earth science, Ecology, Ecology, Forestry and Agriculture, Geoscience, Meteorology, Oceanography, Oceans, Physical oceanography, Physical sciences, Science, Space Science, Space sciences, Weather
Grade level	Elementary School, Middle School, Informal Education
Intended audience	Learner
Resource type	Audio/Visual, Instructional Material, Reference Material, Text
Resource format	text, text/html
Rights	Copyright 2001 - NERCs Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. All Rights Reserved.

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