Describe the climatic changes you might experience as you travel on a line from the eastern Mediterranean coast at Beirut to the highlands of Yemen. What are some of the key climatic variables that explain these variations?
What will be an ideal response?
As you travel from the eastern Mediterranean to the highlands of Yemen you will pass through a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and cooler winters, through a tropical/sub tropical desert environment, and then a tropical and sub-tropical steppe environment. In the more highland regions, temperatures will be notably cooler. The two most significant climate variables are latitude and altitude. Also significant is the influence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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