Climatic Areas of Europe 1:15,000,000

The Climatic Areas of Europe (EUCA15000) were delineated in order to stratify the legend of the European Soil Regions Map (EUSR5000). Because soil properties largely depend on climate, relief and geology, soil regions must be defined according to fairly homogenous macro-scale physiogeographic conditions. Because climate (and parent material) is the initial top level stratifier for the soil regions, its delineation is more coarsely defined. The EUCA15000 is mainly based on the Thermal Climate Classification (FAO 2004), which also has been used as a data source for the Global Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ). Currently, the map distinguishes (i) the climate zones from North to South and (ii) the climate types with oceanic to continental influence. All in all, 35 climatic areas are delineated. They differ regarding mean annual temperatures, mean annual precipitation and the length of the growing period.

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(2025) . Climatic Areas of Europe 1:15,000,000. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb02933b-43e3-4bcf-a663-cfb16a7cf926

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File identifier: fb02933b-43e3-4bcf-a663-cfb16a7cf926 XML

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

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code: 48cc976c-ac43-57f8-be08-df324ee4d2f7

code: https://doi.org/10.25928/EUCA15000_1.0

Metadata language: eng English

Spatial representation type: Vector

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Format: PDF

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Geoscientific information

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Atmospheric conditions

Other keywords

Keywords ( Theme )

Climate
Klima
Climate zones
Klimazonen
Klimaregionen
Climate types
Klimatypen
Atmospheric precipitation
Mittlerer Jahresniederschlag
Atmospheric temperature
European Union
Europäische Union

Keywords ( Place )

Europa
Europe

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Date ( Publication ): 2025-09-04

Date ( Creation ): 2005-08-09

Quality and validity

Lineage: Die Datenquellen sind in Hartwich et al. (2005) gelistet und erläutert: - Europaweite thematische Karten und Datensätze - Nationale/regionale Bodenkarten und Expertenwissen von Mitgliedern des European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN) - The data sources are listed, explained and cited in Hartwich et al. (2005): - Europe-wide thematic maps and data sets - national/regional soil maps and expert knowledge from members of the European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN)

Denominator: 15000000

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Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints: General Standard Terms and Conditions (GSTC) of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). The LBEG or the BGR is the owner of the rights of exploitation for software, digital data, and other products protected by copyright, as well as know-how. The contractual partner receives a simple right of use for the types of use defined in the following. The right to duplicate and present is also transferred. The rights which are not transferred include in particular the right to make accessible to the public, unless the contractual partner makes the aforementioned accessible to the public within the framework of an administrative procedure when acting as a participating authority in said administrative procedure. For the purpose of reuse the provided information has to be quoted as follows: BGR [Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe] (2005). Soil Regions Map of the European Union and Adjacent Countries 1:5,000,000 (Version 2.0). Special Publication, Ispra. EU catalogue number S.P.I.05.134.