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Continental climate is a type of climate characterized by consistently hot summers, persistently frosty winters and low rainfall. The continental climate is formed as a result of the prevailing impact on the atmosphere of large land masses. This type of climate is typical for the interior regions of the continents.
The continental climate is dominant in a significant part of the territory of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and the interior regions of the United States and Canada. It leads to the formation of steppes and deserts, since most of the moisture of the seas and oceans does not reach the inland regions.
Might include the Francophones of Canada ,the Amish religious enclaves of south-central Pennsylvania, Russia, and Middle East
The hot and humid climate
Answer: A - P.M. Grootes, K.M. Cuffey, and J.M. Bolzan, among others.
Explanation: Dr. Anandakrishnan collaborated and coauthored with all of the people listed above and has worked with many other people.
During the year 1994, Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan collaborated with Kurt M Cuffey, Richard B Alley, Pieter M Grootes and John M Bolzan on the topic 'Calibration of the δ18O isotopic paleothermometer for central Greenland, using borehole temperatures'
They calibrated the δ 18O paleo-thermometer for central Greenland using borehole temperatures, a thermal model forced by a measured δ 18O record and a formal inverse technique. The calibration is determined mostly by temperature fluctuations of the last several centuries, including the Little Ice Age.
Results are generally insensitive to model variables, including initial condition, basal boundary condition, parameterization of snow thermal properties, ice thickness and likely errors in temperature and isotope measurements. Results of this borehole calibration also seem to be in agreement with modern spatial gradients of δ 18O and temperature.
They suggest that calibrations of isotopic paleothermometers using borehole temperatures are a useful paleoclimate tool because they are independent of spatial gradients and include the effects of prehistoric temperatures.
