Thermal Regions Classification System (IMAGE)

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Thermal Regions Classification System

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Lakes with similar seasonal patterns of surface water temperatures are grouped together in a thermal region. The range in terms of relative temperature is from frigid, to cool, to temperate, to warm, to hot. Tropical Hot, in red, on and around the Equator, is the hottest of the nine thermal regions.

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Maberly et. al

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