Description
A warm seasonal humid climate is significantly warmer than the present-day climate exhibiting a marked seasonal variation between warm, humid, rainy seasons and cool, dry seasons (monsoon-like). Evapotranspiration is moderate and there is moderate effective moisture. Streams are perennial with marked seasonal variations in run-off. Vegetation cover is moderate. Such a climate may occur if the greenhouse effect becomes dominant and glaciation cycling ends.
OPA Category
Category as used in the OPA assessment
Climatic processes and events
OPA Number
Number as used in the OPA assessment
1.07
NEA V1 IFEP Reference(s)
Related IFEPs from the NEA V1 IFEP list from 1999
1.3.06, 1.3.07, 1.3.08