Articles of category "Subarctic climate"

Boreal climate is the form of climate found in a region of boreal forests. Regions having a subarctic climate, also called boreal climate, are characterized by very cold winters, and brief, warm summers. Winter is the dominant season of the subarctic boreal climate and the summers are short. This type of climate offers extreme seasonal temperature variations.

Tourism in recent years has become a major source of revenue for most countries of the subarctic due to the beautiful, generally glacial, landscapes so characteristic of the region. Subarctic regions were not explored until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries because of the difficulty of transportation. The K?ppen climate classification is one of the most widely used and represents different climate groups.