1. Egeo 324: East Asia Human Environment CHINA THE SETTING Part 2: Climate and Agriculture
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2. Plus Two
Xinjiang
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3. Part 2
Climate
Agriculture
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5. Climate Comparison to US
Dry Winter
Dry Summer
No Dry Season
Dry Always
No Dry Season
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6. Climate Comparison to US
Carefully review these two maps and note:
how western China lacks a large inhabitable area like the US West Coast
the difference in climatic change along each places east coast
Which country seems to have more habitable areas?
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7. Precipitation A major factor in China’s Climatic Regions
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Sylvia Prieler

8. A monsoon is not just any heavy rain that lasts for a long time
A monsoon is not just any heavy rain that lasts for a long time.  Rather, a monsoon is like a giant sea-breeze.  A normal sea breeze changes daily, with the day-to-night change of land temperature as the sun rises and sets; monsoons change seasonally.  Figure A compares seasonal shifts in the monsoon circulation.  Most of the time during the summer, the land is warmer than the ocean.  This causes air to rise over the land and air to blow in from the ocean to fill the void left by the air that rose.  As you know, rising air leads to cloud formation and precipitation.  These monsoon clouds that form are full of moisture from the ocean, so they can produce heavy rainfall for long periods of time.  Because the land stays warmer than the ocean for most of the summer and the ocean is a constant source of moisture, these heavy rains last for months at a time.  A monsoon climate is marked by dry winters and wet summers.  About a quarter of the globe experiences a monsoon climate. 
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9. Percipitation
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10. IIASA-LUC GIS DatabaseCLIMATE - Northern ASIA 5km monthly database
MAP ANIMATION: CHINA - Annual precipitation Animation Raw Maps
MAP ANIMATION: CHINA – Length of Growing Season Animation
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Sylvia Prieler

12. Sylvia Prieler (prieler@iiasa.ac.at)
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13. Global Perspective – somewhat crude
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15. Agricultural Regions A –1 crop/yr
B –2 crops/yr or 3 crops every other year
C – 2 crops/yr with Rice
D – 2 rice crops/yr + 3rd crop
E – 3 rice crops/yr
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17. New Rice Growing Areas of Manchuria
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18. Crop and % of Land Cultivated
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23. Grain Production by Province in China
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24. Forest Cover Another way of defining Humid and Arid China as well as North and South China Proper
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26. Recent Story from Government Paper: China Daily
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