Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification

@article{Peel2007UpdatedWM,
  title={Updated world map of the K{\"o}ppen-Geiger climate classification},
  author={Murray C. Peel and Brian L. Finlayson and Thomas Aquinas McMahon},
  journal={Hydrology and Earth System Sciences},
  year={2007},
  volume={11},
  pages={1633-1644}
}
Abstract. Although now over 100 years old, the classification of climate originally formulated by Wladimir Koppen and modified by his collaborators and successors, is still in widespread use. It is widely used in teaching school and undergraduate courses on climate. It is also still in regular use by researchers across a range of disciplines as a basis for climatic regionalisation of variables and for assessing the output of global climate models. Here we have produced a new global map of… 
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