Glacier in the Bernese Alps. There are two general types of glaciers – alpine glaciers and ice sheets. Alpine glaciers form in mountainous areas either at high elevations or near cool and wet coastal areas like the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.
For climate of a place in order to be simplified and organized and generalized needs to be classified into the understandable forms as accordance to the climatic data obtained for the diverse classification and a compressive view of the climate and a broadly distributed over the earth is represented by the Koppen's climatic classification wee each climate is diverse and given different type of names and numbers.
<u>Such as those of the A (tropical), the B (dry), and the C (temperate), D (continental), and the E (polar). On the basis of the seasonal rainfall and the type of vegetation found in various regions on the earth.</u>
El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, as opposed to La Niña, which is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.
