Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale

English: Taking into account measurements made by Météo-France recording stations, a data set related to temperature and precipitation is worked out for a 30 years period (1971-2000), it includes 14 variables able to characterize the climates and their specific variability. An original method, so called local interpolation, allows the representation of each of the 14 variables as a continuous field and stores them in the form of GIS data layers. This data is then processed by Coupling Correspondence Analysis and Ascending Hierarchical Classification in order to obtain a typology where 8 climates are identified and mapped on the French continental territory.