Abstract
In order to classify the climate, there are three types of methods; static climatological method, empirical one and causal one. It seems that they correspond to the first level “Qualitative inventory and associations”, the second one “Morphological systems” and the third one “Cascading systems”, respectively, of Terjung's five categories of the methodology in physical geography.
This study involves the first level for the data collection itself while the second and third levels were applied to select and analyse the climatic elements or indices.
Climatological elements and indices for classifying here are the annual range of air-temperature, Lang's Regenfaktor, seasonality of precipitation, year climate and snow depth. Their distributions are shown in Fig. 2 to Fig. 8. The annual range of air-temperature and Regenfaktor are quite significant elements from the view point of the annual heat-exchange and water balance at the earth surface.
By integrating the patterns of the isolines or the distributions in the seven maps, fourteen climatic types are identified as fairly homogeneous climatic regions (Fig. 9).
