Vibrant art deco hotels along the Ocean Drive on a sunny day in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Did you know that Miami and Orlando have different climates? Yes, while many ...

It's no secret that Phoenix is hot, but late summer and the start of fall were scorchers, even by Valley of the Sun standards. Between Sept. 23 and Oct. 14, Phoenix set daily record high temperatures ...

The Köppen climate classification system was first published in 1918 by German climatologist Wladimir Köppen. Faced with a lack of adequate observing stations, Köppen used vegetation to approximate ...

A study has divided the world into 12 climate zones on the basis of the Köppen–Geiger classification map. The paper confirmed Chile’s Atacama region has the world’s highest solar radiation but also ...

ABSTRACT: We used the Köppen-Trewartha classification on the CMIP5 family of global climate model (GCM) simulations and global Climatic Research Unit (CRU) data for comparison. This evaluation ...

Scientists have added modern weather data to a century-old classification of the world’s climates to provide more accurate comparisons between the results of computer simulations and terrestrial ...