Climate classification of Alisov

Climatic belts of the Alisov system. The climate classification of Alisov was developed by the Soviet geographer and climatologist Boris Pavlovich Alisov between the 1930s and 1950s. It is a genetic classification, based mainly on observing the distribution and yield of the masses of air is considered the first climatic classification based on the concept of air masses. Weather belts This system divides the Earth into seven climatic belts according to the activity of air masses: equatorial, subequatorial (or equatorial monsoon), tropical, subtropical, temperate, subpolar (subarctic and subantarctic) and polar (arctic and Antarctic).

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