Understanding the Iberian Plateau: Geography and Climate
The Iberian Plateau
The main unit is emphasized in Spanish geography and covers 45% of the surface. During the downhill movement, it is broken into two blocks: a northern sub-plateau with an altitude of 800-850 m surrounded by mountains, and a southern sub-plateau with an altitude of 500-700 m, consisting of two separated Alpine Toledo regions.
Mountain Ridges
Galicia-Massif: Lions of 200 square miles of mountainside and share of Galicia, Asturias Western Sierra, Montes de Toledo, Sierra Cabrera, and others.
- Cantabrian Cordillera: Forms a linear chain that is very strong and hilly on the Cantabrian front, in the western part of the Asturian Massif mountain range, which forms dislocated Paleozoic blocks.
In the eastern part, the mountains lose height, and the relief is dominated by folding of sedimented material.
Sistema Ibérico: The Northeast Plateau is bordered to the east and consists of materials from the Hertzian sockets and secondary material deposited by the sea.
Sierra Morena: It is the southern edge of the Mesta and has a small amount of mountains.
Outside the Plateau Range
- Pyrenees: Mountain ranges of 140 km in length and 100 km in width. The axial or central Pyrenees is made up of pre-Hercynian material, while the exterior or interior Pyrenees are mean depression Pyrenees.
- Catalan Coastal Range: Separated by faults and volcanic soil, and divided by longitudinal depression.
- Betic: Formed during the downhill movement of sedimentary material accumulated at the bottom of the socket.
Depressions
Depressions of the Ebro and Guadalquivir: The Ebro depression occupies the sea and then closes, creating a large side clogged by material supplied by rivers. The Guadalquivir depression lies between the Sierra Morena and Betic ranges; around the marshes are dunes formed by winds from the Atlantic.
Climate
Geographical Factors
- Latitude of Spain: The North Temperate Zone determines the existence of two seasons, summer and winter, and two transition seasons, spring and autumn.
- Location of the Peninsula: Situated between two water masses of different thermal characteristics and between two continents.
- Influence of the Sea: Due to the width of the peninsula, costs are little cut.
Terrain influences the climate through its willingness, height, and disposition of the relief orientation. Mountain systems curb the influence of the sea, the arrangement facilitates the entry of air masses, and the Duero and Ebro basins have low rainfall with mists indicated by the stagnant air.
Thermodynamic Factors
Circulation in height: The jet stream is a strong current of wind that runs a tabular structure from west to east. The jet separates the low pressure in the pole height and is responsible for time-dependent surface conditions, the jet velocity, and seasonal movements of the jet.
- Circulation on the surface: Action centers are areas of high and low pressure. High pressure, or anticyclone, is an area of high pressure, and low pressure, or storm/cyclone, is an area of low pressure.
Action-Centers: Formed in an area in which the height of the jet stream is described.