1. CLIMATE

2. CLIMATIC INFLUENCES MARITIME CONTINENTAL North Atlantic Drift
Sea
Baltic Sea
Moscow
16/63 47
Gulf Stream
London
38/62 24
Berlin
31/64 33
Warsaw
26/64 38
Bay of
Biscay
Black Sea
Adriatic Sea
Aegean
Sea
M e d I t e r r a n e a n S e a
D. Hardin

3. Mean Annual Rainfall in Ireland
CLIMATIC INFLUENCES
Maritime influence
Monthly hours of sunshine
Approx.
15 days
16 days
Northern Ireland
England
Double Farmville’s precip.
Farmville’s precip.
42.9”
Greater than 110”
Mean Annual Rainfall in Ireland
D. Hardin

4. Continental influence
CLIMATIC INFLUENCES
Continental influence
“General Winter”
Napoleon, 1812
Hitler, 1941
D. Hardin

5. H H H H H L L L L L L CLIMATIC INFLUENCES Subtropical High 30° N 0°
D. Hardin

6. CLIMATIC INFLUENCES Subtropical High MEDITERRANEAN MARITIME
CONTINENTAL
Black Sea
Adriatic Sea
Aegean
Sea
MEDITERRANEAN
M e d I t e r r a n e a n S e a
D. Hardin

7. NATURAL
VEGETATION

9. NATURAL VEGETATION Mediterranean Matorral - Spain Olives Cork
Maquis – France - winter
Maquis – France - summer
Maquis
French resistance
Macchia - Italy
D. Hardin

10. NATURAL VEGETATION Mediterranean Natural hazards Fire Degraded
Greece
Mediterranean
Natural hazards
Degraded
landscapes
Flooding
Cervara di Roma
D. Hardin

12. NATURAL VEGETATION Steppe Spain Moldova Ukraine Russia Kursk, 1943
Kazakhstan
D. Hardin

14. NATURAL VEGETATION
Prairie/Puszta
D. Hardin

16. NATURAL VEGETATION Deciduous forest France Croatia Argonne Forest
Loire Valley
D. Hardin

18. NATURAL VEGETATION Alpine conifer forest Voges Schwartzwald
Erzgebirge acid rain damage
D. Hardin

20. NATURAL VEGETATION
Boreal Forest/Taiga
Norway
Finland
Russia
D. Hardin

22. NATURAL VEGETATION
Tundra
Norway
Russia
D. Hardin

23. NATURAL VEGETATION
Tundra
Permafrost
Jarkov mammoth
Russia
D. Hardin

25. NATURAL VEGETATION
Heath/Moor
Scotland
England
D. Hardin