Alpine climate

White Mountain, an alpine environment at 4,300 metres (14,000 ft) in California

Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line but below the place where the snow never melts.^[1]^[2]^[3] This is a mountain or highland climate.

No month has a mean temperature higher than 10 °C (50 °F).^[4]

Alpine Climate Media

Global map of alpine climate
Elevation of treeline by latitude

References

↑ Alpine habitatsNew Zealand Department of Conservation. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
↑ World Biomes: Alpine. Kids EcologyUniversity of California at Santa Barbara. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
↑ Alpine (High Elevation) Life Zones. Biomes of the WorldRadford University. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
↑ McKnight, Tom L. Physical geography: a landscape appreciation (2000). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 235–7. ISBN 0-13-020263-0.

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[NZ-1] Alpine habitatsNew Zealand Department of Conservation. Retrieved February 4, 2022.

[UC-2] World Biomes: Alpine. Kids EcologyUniversity of California at Santa Barbara. Retrieved February 4, 2022.

[Radford-3] Alpine (High Elevation) Life Zones. Biomes of the WorldRadford University. Retrieved February 4, 2022.

[4] McKnight, Tom L. Physical geography: a landscape appreciation (2000). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 235–7. ISBN 0-13-020263-0.

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