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continentality

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continentality [‚känt·ən·en′tal·əd·ē]
(climatology)
The degree to which a point on the earth's surface is in all respects subject to the influence of a land mass.


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Column heading abbreviations: MAT, Mean Annual Temperature; MAP, Mean Annual Precipitation; GDD, Growing Degree Days; GSL, Growing Season Length; XMT, 30-year extreme minimum winter temperature (event year in parenthesis); CNT, Continentality (mean annual temperature range).
Geology and Wine 11. Terroir of the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, ... by Bitner, Ron / Geoscience Canada
1946: Usual formulas for continentality and their limits of validity.
Annual temperature range time-series trends and long-range forecasting by Snow, Mary M. / National Weather Digest
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