Koppen Climate Changes from 2000-2100

How does Climate Change affect our climate types and what does that mean?

Christian DeCelle

So what is a Köppen Climate Zone?

Koppen Climates were classified by Wladimir Köppen

He separated the world into 5 main climate regions (and then 30 sub-types):

Tropical Rainy, Dry, Warm Rainy, Snowy/Cold, and Polar.

So what's it based on?

Temperature and Precipitation data!

So how can I visualize it?

Think of the biomes! Each classification was designed to share similar vegetation types (Beck et al. 2018)

Here are the Koppen Climate Zones of the United States.

So, how is it changing? The left is today, the right is 2100

So here's a closer look to help you can really see! https://arcg.is/SLWGb  https://wku.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0qbxQKLPCyRckcd 

All data from "Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution"

Beck, H., Zimmermann, N., McVicar, T. et al. Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution. Sci Data 5(180214). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.214