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Chapter 8: Climate and Climate Change Climate Classification Intro basic goal of the geographic study of climate: understand its distribution over Earth challenges: climate involves continuous variation and can change over time Early Classification Schemes ancient Greek system – 3 climate zones Temperate Zone of the midlatitudes (Athens @ 38oN) Torrid Zone of the tropics to the south Frigid zone to the north The K?ppen Climate Classification System K?ppen – German climatologist and botanist first version 1918 basis for classification: average annual and average monthly values of temperature