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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Science - Meteorology / A technical paper on Image Classification in climate science | |||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 13:13 | ||||
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4 +1 | temperature zones / thermal zones |
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4 | climate region (zone) |
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climate region (zone) Explanation: Despite the fact that térmica translates to thermal and might be adapted to temperature, in looking at how region térmica is depicted and used, I think the English equivalent is more along the lines of climate zone or region, because it is part of the geographic evaluation such as temperate, sub tropical, tropical etc, which is a climate zone or region, along with the rainfall region that follows in the text |
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temperature zones / thermal zones Explanation: "Zone" is the usual word here, rather than "region", and both these collocations are found in the literature, though I think "thermal zones" is a bit more old-fashioned. Temperature obviously affects climate, and temperature zones will largely coincide with climate zones, but they are not exactly the same thing. After all, your text also mentions "regiones pluviométricas", and precipitation is also a component of climate. "USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North " http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardines... "Based on the average annual minimum temperature for a given location, the USDA map provides an easy guideline for categorizing locations suitable for winter survival of a rated plant in an "average" winter. [...] The 1990-issue map was based on nearly double the number of stations, and it divided the temperature zones into five-degree a/b zones for greater accuracy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone Here, in John E. Oliver's Encyclopedia of World Climatology (pp. 270-71), you'll see that under the broad heading of "Climate Zones" there is a sub-heading for "Temperature Zones", within which historical classifications of "Thermal Zones" are cited: http://books.google.es/books?id=-mwbAsxpRr0C&pg=PA270&lpg=PA... |
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