Tropics

Tropics - 1. Any portion of the earth characterized by a tropical climate. 2. Same as Torrid Zone. See Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn.

TROPICS/TROPICAL The region of the earth located between the Tropic of Cancer, at 23.5 degrees North latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn, at 23.5 degrees South latitude.

Tropics Areas of the Earth within 20?Ǭ? North and South of the equator. Tropopause ...

Tropics Areas of the Earth within 20°North/South of the Equator. Tropopause The upper boundary of the troposphere, ...

TROPICS - Geographical regions of the earth between 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south latitudes. There are nearly constant temperatures in these areas year round, however, there may be a dry and wet season. The latitude of 23.

Tropics The area between 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator. This region has small daily and seasonal changes in temperature, but great seasonal changes in precipitation.

Tropics- The area of the globe from latitudes 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.

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Forms outside the tropics. Center of storm is colder than the surrounding air. Has fronts. Strongest winds in the upper atmosphere. A USA TODAY online weather graphic and text gives more details on these big weather makers.

Tropical DisturbanceA discrete tropical weather system of apparently organized convection--generally 100 to 300 mi in diameter--originating in the tropics or subtropics, ...

In the tropics, there is the dry and the rainy season, depending on the amount of precipitation. SEA SPRAY Sometimes called salt spray, it is the drops of sea water (salt water) blown from the top of a wave.

In the tropics, the defining altitudes for cloud types are generally higher. Middle Latitudes1) The latitude belt roughly between 35 and 65 degrees North and South. Also referred to as the temperate region. or 2) With specific reference to zones ...

Some reach the American tropics and a few develop into tropical cyclones. West WallThe coast side boundary of the Gulf Stream, typically south of Cape Hatteras. See also North Wall ...

Tropical Air: Air which froms over the tropics. Tropical Air Mass: A larger body of air which froms over the tropics that is warm and humid. Tropical Cyclone: A cyclone which forms over the tropics.

It carries momentum, sensible heat, and potential heat from the tropics to the mid-latitudes (30 degrees). The poleward transport aloft is complemented by subsidence in the subtropical high pressure ridge and a surface return flow.

Many dissipate after entering a continent in the Tropics, and a smaller number die over the tropical oceans. Tropical cyclones are more nearly circularly symmetric than are frontal cyclones.

The CFCs then rise from the lower atmosphere into the stratosphere, mainly in the tropics. Winds then move this air poleward - both North and South - from the tropics. The meteorologies of the two polar regions are very different.

The doctor is also used in the African tropics to describe a sea breeze which generally brings cool relief from the heat generated in the interior of the continent.

The easterly trade winds of the tropics drag the surface waters of the eastern Pacific away from the coastlines of the Americas.

Mid-latitude troughs have a north to south amplitude but in the tropics the opposite is the case. Inverted troughs look like ridges but there is lower pressure at their centers of curvature.

A discrete tropical weather system of apparently organized convection--generally 100 to 300 nmi in diameter -- originating in the tropics or subtropics, having a nonfrontal migratory character, and maintaining its identity for 24 hours or more.

Motion that is backwards from the usual way things move in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics which is from west to east. In meteorology, the term is used in relation to atmospheric waves or pressure systems.

trade winds: wind system in the tropics that blows from the subtropical high pressure areas to the equatorial low pressure area. They are northeast winds in the Northern Hemisphere and southeast winds in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the tropics where weather doesn't vary much, a persistence forecast can be quite accurate. In areas along the polar front where storm waves rule and conditions change rapidly, it can be very unreliable.

Trade Winds - The winds that occupy most of the tropics and blow from the subtropical highs to the equatorial low. Tropical - often between 20°N and 20°S, very hot and humid with temperatures always greater than 65°F and rain most of the year.

Easterly Wave: Disruption in the form of trough in the east current of the tropics, which is more evident in high levels than in the surface analysis, and whose passage to the west is marked by an increase in nebulosity and showers.

Doctor 1. A cooling sea breeze in the Tropics. 2. See HARMATTAN. 3. The strong SE wind which blows on the south African coast. Usually called CAPE DOCTOR.

Trade winds: any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.

Trade Winds - the wind system, occupying most of the tropics, which are northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere ...

TROPICAL STORM: An organized cyclone in the tropics with wind speed between 35 and 64 knots. TROUGH: An elongated area of low pressure at the surface or aloft.

Troposphere Lower part of the atmosphere, extending from the surface up to a height varying from about 7 to 9 km at polar regions to approximately 17 km in tropics.

E0100 Easterly wave Synoptic-scale disturbance which moves from east to west, superimposed on the basic easterly flow of the tropics. E0110 Ecliptic The intersection of the plane of the Earth's orbit with the celestial sphere.

The clockwise geostrophic winds drive a parade of lows onto northern lands, and easterly trade winds in the tropics. In the winter, a strong Siberian high, with pressures above 1035 mb, and a high in the western U.S., the Intermountain High, form.

CIRCULATION CELLS Large areas of air movement created by the rotation of the earth and the transfer of heat from the equator toward the poles. Circulation is confined to a specific region, such as the tropics, temperate, or polar, ...

prevailing easterlies—The broad current or pattern of persistent easterly winds in the Tropics and in polar regions.

Large areas of air movement created by the rotation of the earth and the transfer of heat from the equator toward the poles. Circulation is confined to a specific region, such as the tropics, temperate, or polar, ...

This boundary marks the top of the troposphere and the base of the stratosphere, and can vary with season and latitude, with a altitude ranging from 6 km (4 mi) in polar regions to 16 km (10 mi) in the tropics ...

Subtropic belt of high pressureIt is a line of high pressure systems near the tropics, which cause lasting dry weather during summer. Preciptations only exist in winter time and the wind is only weak or hardly recognizable.

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