Large-scale climatic patterns forcing desert locust upsurges in West Africa.

The planetary seasons greatly determine temperatures and climatic patterns.

Although most of the country lies in the temperate belt, its climatic patterns are complex.

In general, climatic patterns consist of warm temperatures and high annual rainfall.

Conservation groups warn that the loss of such massive tropical forests could affect climatic patterns elsewhere in the Pacific.

The ability to study climatic patterns has been critical to the debate over the phenomenon called "global warming."

Sometimes the field also includes the study of climatic patterns on planets other than earth.

Several theories related to changes in climatic patterns have been put forth to account for the rapid decline of A. varius.

Topographical variation creates local modifications of the basic climatic pattern.