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regiones térmicas

English translation: temperature zones / thermal zones

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Spanish term or phrase:regiones térmicas
English translation:temperature zones / thermal zones

17:04 Nov 29, 2014
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Science - Meteorology / A technical paper on Image Classification in climate science
Spanish term or phrase: regiones térmicas
Para Andalucía, Capel-Molina plantea 5 regiones; Font-Tullot (2000) diferencia 3 regiones, con un total de 4 subregiones; mientras que Castillo-Requena (1988) estimó 4 regiones térmicas (con 17 sectores) y 3 regiones pluviométricas (con 19 sectores)

I assume this is best translated as "temperature regions" rather than "thermal" or "thermic" regions. The second collocation I can't find anywhere.
achitophel
temperature zones / thermal zones
Explanation:
"Zone" is the usual word here, rather than "region", and both these collocations are found in the literature, though I think "thermal zones" is a bit more old-fashioned. Temperature obviously affects climate, and temperature zones will largely coincide with climate zones, but they are not exactly the same thing. After all, your text also mentions "regiones pluviométricas", and precipitation is also a component of climate.

"USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardines...

"Based on the average annual minimum temperature for a given location, the USDA map provides an easy guideline for categorizing locations suitable for winter survival of a rated plant in an "average" winter. [...] The 1990-issue map was based on nearly double the number of stations, and it divided the temperature zones into five-degree a/b zones for greater accuracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone

Here, in John E. Oliver's Encyclopedia of World Climatology (pp. 270-71), you'll see that under the broad heading of "Climate Zones" there is a sub-heading for "Temperature Zones", within which historical classifications of "Thermal Zones" are cited:
http://books.google.es/books?id=-mwbAsxpRr0C&pg=PA270&lpg=PA...
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Charles Davis
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4 +1temperature zones / thermal zones
Charles Davis
4climate region (zone)
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climate region (zone)


Explanation:
Despite the fact that térmica translates to thermal and might be adapted to temperature, in looking at how region térmica is depicted and used, I think the English equivalent is more along the lines of climate zone or region, because it is part of the geographic evaluation such as temperate, sub tropical, tropical etc, which is a climate zone or region, along with the rainfall region that follows in the text

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temperature zones / thermal zones


Explanation:
"Zone" is the usual word here, rather than "region", and both these collocations are found in the literature, though I think "thermal zones" is a bit more old-fashioned. Temperature obviously affects climate, and temperature zones will largely coincide with climate zones, but they are not exactly the same thing. After all, your text also mentions "regiones pluviométricas", and precipitation is also a component of climate.

"USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardines...

"Based on the average annual minimum temperature for a given location, the USDA map provides an easy guideline for categorizing locations suitable for winter survival of a rated plant in an "average" winter. [...] The 1990-issue map was based on nearly double the number of stations, and it divided the temperature zones into five-degree a/b zones for greater accuracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone

Here, in John E. Oliver's Encyclopedia of World Climatology (pp. 270-71), you'll see that under the broad heading of "Climate Zones" there is a sub-heading for "Temperature Zones", within which historical classifications of "Thermal Zones" are cited:
http://books.google.es/books?id=-mwbAsxpRr0C&pg=PA270&lpg=PA...

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 02:34
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Many thanks, very helpful!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Karen Dinicola: I would have thought climate zones, except that the text seems to be referring to manmade guidelines (that don't even agree with each other), rather than climate zones that are readily identifiable and change little over time
1 hr
  -> Thanks! I think the point is that these are strictly zones based on temperature measurements: isotherms.
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