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Alpine climate is the average weather (s can drastically modify the climate.

There have been several attempts at quantifying what constitutes an alpine climate.

Climatologist Wladimir Köppen demonstrated a relationship between the Arctic and Antarctic tree lines and the 10°C summer isotherm; i.e., places where the average temperature in the warmest calendar month of the year is below 10°C cannot support forests. See Köppen Climate Classification for more information.

However, lies outside the polar region in Nordenskiöld's system, but part of the island (including Ushuaia, Argentina ) is reckoned as being within the Antarctic under Köppen's.

In , if the low temperature is caused by latitude).