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The climate is a notion of average time for a region and for a longer period. While short-term weather describes the state of the atmosphere, the climate is a long-term pattern of weather in one area (Ahrens and Henson 2016). The climate has many more items from the average condition of the atmosphere, because the full description of the environment should also include changes and extremes in the atmosphere to accurately describe the overall character of the area. The important elements in the descriptions of the climate are the regime of temperature and the precipitation regime, because they have the greatest impact on people and their activities have effects on the distribution of vegetation and soil development. There are various factors that affect climate worldwide, among which the most important are:
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Spiridonov, V., Ćurić, M. (2021). Climate and Climate Change. In: Fundamentals of Meteorology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52655-9_24
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