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>1
My reasoning is that the northern coast of the Holo continent would likely be subjected to strong arctic wind from the large icecap covering the arctic landmass, which will lead to a summer too cold to be considered continental climate. You can probably argue that the /uuu/ peninsula can be subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) instead due to the warm current, although I have my doubts about it spreading further than that. I also don't know why that warm current split into two off that peninsula.
>2
A transitional zone, if it exists, would be rather narrow there due to how thin the /kr/ peninsula is. It might be difficult to justify it having a warm enough summer and a cold enough winter at the same time to be Dfc. As for the gyre south of /kr/, I have my doubts about it doing much, since that warm current is warm only by comparison due to it being pretty much a subpolar current. It being stronger might spread the subarctic monsoon climate further west, but I don't know if it would have enough heat in it to power all the way to /kr/.
>3
I might have drawn that boundary a bit too south. Somewhere near 40-45 might be more reasonable. As for the oceanic climate south of it, it is mostly based on real life pattern, but is related to the colder weather reducing water evaporation that leads to wetter weather.
>4
Fair point, the continental climate can probably cover the whole coast, with the boundary to the subarctic climate going a bit further north.
>5
To be honest, I have always been a bit stuck with the climate classification of that long peninsula. I relied somewhat on the climate simulation I mentioned above, and the peninsula seems to go below freezing during its winter, hence it is listed as continental. That said, I can see a case for oceanic climate zones for that as well.
>6
Am and Aw are always present as a transitional zone between Af and C_a, although Am is more prominent in monsoonal regions. They are fairly similar in practice, and that is one of the reasons why I opted for listing both under the same category (the other being that of the low resolution - I separated them in the old map, and the result was not very satisfying since I missed some of the transitional zones). As for Cwa reaching the inland sea, that is a result of the Niji monsoon - during winter, the inland high pressure zone from the Lazulight-/haha/ highland will make offshore wind dominate the inland coast, while the reverse is true for summer. It can be debated whether the inland sea can generate enough moisture for a truly wet summer, so one can make a case for the coast being Cfa as well.

As for the simulation, I tried the free version of Clima-Sim a while ago. It is a fairly rudimentary tool (at least for the free version), but it provides some valuable information like temperature and temperature difference, which is useful in mapping high pressure zones and determining where monsoon would happen, but I also used it to work out some of the more unusual landmass' climate. It is by no means a very reliable tool, but it is better than nothing.

It should be stressed that I am by no means the sole (or even best) authority on climate zoning, and since this revision is based on current Earth perimeter, others should be able to go through the same logic to work out their own climate map that might differ from mine. It does not mean they would be wrong for that - if anything, they might actually be more true to real life than mine.