Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here's what climate change is doing to it
- Written by: Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
ShutterstockYou probably saw a multi-coloured climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?
Almost always, those maps were based on the climate classification system proposed by Wladimir Köppen. The colours are chosen to suit...
