Where did the change begin?
Labs / Geography
Climate Zone Classifier
Every place on Earth has a rhythm of warmth and rain across the year. Move the sliders to sculpt that pattern into a climograph, and the lab sorts it into a Köppen climate code — then lights up the latitude band where climates like it live. Try dragging up and down on the world map to sample latitudes directly.
Labs / Geography / Climate Zone Classifier
Climate Zone Classifier
Every place on Earth has a rhythm of warmth and rain across the year. Move the sliders to sculpt that pattern into a climograph, and the lab sorts it into a Köppen climate code — then lights up the latitude band where climates like it live. Try dragging up and down on the world map to sample latitudes directly.
Why it matters
Why explore this?
Geography explains how places, people, and Earth systems affect one another. This model lets you change one factor and watch its effects spread across space.
Explore
Try the model
Köppen CfbTemperateZone 35–50° N & S
Investigate
Questions to test
Predict first, try it in the model, then use what you observe to answer.
What to try
- Keep the rainfall high but shrink the seasonal range toward zero — what makes a place tropical rather than temperate?
- Turn the rainfall down low. How dry must a warm place get before it flips to an arid B climate, and does that threshold change with temperature?
- Load Moscow, then Barrow. What single reading separates a continental winter from a truly polar one?
- Take London's climate and slide the wettest month from autumn into July — can dry summers alone create a Mediterranean code?
- Drag the map marker from the equator to the pole. Why does the seasonal temperature range grow as you move away from the tropics?
Explain
Make sense of what happened
Connect the pattern to place: identify where the change begins, where its effects appear, and which process links those locations.
Check
Before you leave
What spatial pattern appeared?
Which process connects the cause and effect?
If you can answer all three using evidence from the model, you understand the main idea. If not, return to Explore and change one setting at a time.