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Main climatic types and characteristics in China

The climate types in China are tropical monsoon climate, subtropical monsoon climate, temperate monsoon climate, temperate continental climate and plateau mountain climate. The climate in China is diverse, and the continental monsoon climate is its basic feature, which mainly has the following three characteristics:

1, the annual range diurnal range is large, and the extreme temperature difference between winter and summer is large.

2. The distribution of precipitation is very uneven. The main performance is that the annual precipitation gradually decreases from southeast to northwest, with a difference of 40: 1. In terms of seasonal distribution, there is less precipitation in winter, more precipitation in summer and great annual change.

3. In winter, the direction of Xia Feng changes obviously. In winter, the cold air comes from the high latitude mainland, mostly northerly, cold and dry. The wind in summer mainly comes from the ocean, mostly southerly, humid and warm.