ice sheets and tundra are typical of the polar koppen climate category.
ice sheets and tundra are typical of the polar koppen climate category.
ice sheets and tundra are typical of which koppen climate category?
polar
nanortalik has a tundra climate (koppen climate classification "et") with heavy oceanic and polar influences, which creates moderately high precipitation rates, and low temperature differences between seasons respectively. winters in nanortalik are very mild compared to the rest of greenland, with average january temperature being -4 °c. however, the summers are rather cold for this latitude, with an average july temperature 8 °c (in contrast with helsinki, which is also in a similar latitude, but experiences warmer summers of around 17 °c)









































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ice sheets are the largest form of glacial formation. they are continent sized ice masses that span areas over 50 000 km they are dome shaped, and similarly to ice caps, exhibit radial flow. as ice sheets expand over the ocean, they become ice shelves. ice sheets contain 99% of all the freshwater ice found on earth, and form as layers of snow fall, accumulate, and slowly start to compact into ice. there are only two ice sheets present on earth today, and they are the antarctic ice sheet, and the greenland ice sheet. although only a tenth of modern earth is covered by ice sheets, the pleistocene epoch was characterized by ice sheets that covered a third of our land. this was also known as the last glacial maximum
glacier morphology