microclimate

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ climate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

microclimate (plural microclimates)

1. A small, local region having a unique pattern of weather or weather effects that differ from the local climate.

   The microclimate on the south side of a building may differ from the one on the north, so that different plants may thrive.

   The coastal hills are home to many different microclimates.

Derived terms

• microclimatics

Translations

local climate region

Chinese: Mandarin: 微氣候 / 微气候 (zh) (wēiqìhòu) Esperanto: mikroklimato Finnish: mikroilmasto French: microclimat (fr) m Georgian: მიკროკლიმატი (miḳroḳlimaṭi) German: Mikroklima (de) n Greek: μικρόκλιμα (el) n (mikróklima) Icelandic: nærveður n Irish: micrichlíoma m, miocraeráid f Italian: microclima (it) m Japanese: 微気候 (びきこう, bikikō) Kazakh: микроклимат (mikroklimat) Korean: 미기후 (ko) (migihu) Norwegian: Bokmål: mikroklima n Nynorsk: mikroklima n Persian: میکروکلیما (mikroklimâ) Polish: mikroklimat m Portuguese: microclima m Romanian: microclimat (ro) n, microclimă (ro) f Spanish: microclima (es) m Tagalog: mikpanhunan Vietnamese: vi khí hậu

Further reading

• microclimate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia