What is Alpine climate?
{{For|the mountains |Alps}} [[File:White Mountain CA.JPG|right|thumb|[[White Mountain Peak|White Mountain]], an alpine environment at {{convert|4300|m|ft|-3}} 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.<ref name=NZ>{{cite web|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/habitats/alpine/|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation|title=Alpine habitats|accessdate=February 4, 2022}}</ref><ref name=UC>{{cite web|url=http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/alpine.html|publisher=University of California at Santa Barbara|title=World Biomes: Alpine|work=Kids Ecology|accessdate=February 4, 2022}}</ref><ref name=Radford>{{cite web|publisher=Radford University|url=https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/?page_id=2128|accessdate=February 4, 2022|title=Alpine (High Elevation) Life Zones|work=Biomes of the World|archive-date=November 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108153554/https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/?page_id=2128|url-status=dead}}</ref> This is a mountain or highland climate. No month has a mean [[temperature]] higher than {{convert|10|C|F}}.<ref>{{cite book | last1=McKnight|first1=Tom L|last2=Hess|first2=Darrel | year=2000 | chapter=Climate zones and types: the Köppen system | title=Physical geography: a landscape appreciation | url=https://archive.org/details/physicalgeographmckn| pages=[https://archive.org/details/physicalgeographmckn/page/235 235]–7 | location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey | publisher=Prentice Hall | isbn=0-13-020263-0}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Köppen climate classifications]]