A cool subarctic climate with a cold summer and a dry-winter is closely associated with high-latitude or elevated areas in East Asia which are subject to both the monsoon (in summer), and the Siberian high-pressure weather system (in winter).
It is labelled ‘Dwc’ by the Köppen–Geiger scheme for the classification of climates, which requires:
- all months of the year to have an average temperature less than 22 °C
- between one and three months of the year to have an average temperature of 10 °C or above
- the coldest month of the year to have an average temperature below -3 °C
- annual precipitation to exceed the annual potential evapotranspiration
- the wettest month of summer to have at least 10 times more precipitation than the driest month of winter.
Explore places with the (Dwc) climate
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Delta Junction | Alaska | United States of America | Dwc, bordering on BSk |
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Mòhé | Hēilóngjiāng | People’s Republic of China |
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Nagqu | Tibet AR / Xīzàng Zìzhìqū | People’s Republic of China | Dwc, bordering on ET |
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Paganella | Italy | Dfc, bordering on Dwc and ET |
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Tsetserleg | Mongolia |
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Yushu | Qīnghǎi | People’s Republic of China |
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