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Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan

Conceptually, the influence of oceans and continents plays key roles in the climate of any region. This study considers continentality and oceanity thermal climate index and focuses on the synoptic classification of Pakistan. The country has a diversified geographic relief which has profound influ...

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Main Authors: Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail, Burke, Farkhunda, Alam, Muhammad Touseef, ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz, Azam, Muhammad
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Published: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2013
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spelling my-ukm.journal.66532016-12-14T06:41:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6653/ Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail Burke, Farkhunda Alam, Muhammad Touseef ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz Azam, Muhammad Conceptually, the influence of oceans and continents plays key roles in the climate of any region. This study considers continentality and oceanity thermal climate index and focuses on the synoptic classification of Pakistan. The country has a diversified geographic relief which has profound influence on its climate from region to region. While its more than 990 km long coastal belt has wetter maritime condition, its interior belt is under the influence of arid and semi arid conditions and its higher altitude region has a hyper-arid climate. Marsz, also called Kerner Oceanity and Conrad Continentality Indices were calculated for Pakistan using the country’s temperature annual range data of the past fifty years (1961-2010) at 51 climate stations. When correlations between the two continental indices are compared, it indicates that a large area of Pakistan has continental climate. This comparison may be beneficial for Pakistan’s energy reforms and agricultural sectors. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6653/1/6ok.geografia-okt2013-farkhundaburke-edam.pdf Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail and Burke, Farkhunda and Alam, Muhammad Touseef and ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz and Azam, Muhammad (2013) Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 9 (4). pp. 57-66. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?
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description Conceptually, the influence of oceans and continents plays key roles in the climate of any region. This study considers continentality and oceanity thermal climate index and focuses on the synoptic classification of Pakistan. The country has a diversified geographic relief which has profound influence on its climate from region to region. While its more than 990 km long coastal belt has wetter maritime condition, its interior belt is under the influence of arid and semi arid conditions and its higher altitude region has a hyper-arid climate. Marsz, also called Kerner Oceanity and Conrad Continentality Indices were calculated for Pakistan using the country’s temperature annual range data of the past fifty years (1961-2010) at 51 climate stations. When correlations between the two continental indices are compared, it indicates that a large area of Pakistan has continental climate. This comparison may be beneficial for Pakistan’s energy reforms and agricultural sectors.
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author Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail
Burke, Farkhunda
Alam, Muhammad Touseef
ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz
Azam, Muhammad
spellingShingle Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail
Burke, Farkhunda
Alam, Muhammad Touseef
ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz
Azam, Muhammad
Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
author_facet Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail
Burke, Farkhunda
Alam, Muhammad Touseef
ul-Huda, Syed Nawaz
Azam, Muhammad
author_sort Gadiwala, Muhammad Sohail
title Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
title_short Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
title_full Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
title_fullStr Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Oceanity and continentality climate indices in Pakistan
title_sort oceanity and continentality climate indices in pakistan
publisher Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
publishDate 2013
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6653/1/6ok.geografia-okt2013-farkhundaburke-edam.pdf
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