GEOG 1290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tropical Rainforest Climate, Tropics, Sonoran Desert
20 Oct 2017
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Objective - to describe each of the 13 distinct climates and their associated environments e. g. , natural vegetation covers, agricultural practices and other climate-related human activities, nature of soil cover. Occupy equatorial, and much of the tropical and subtropical zones. Influenced by the itcz, tropical easterly systems and subtropical high-pressure cells. Experience traveling lows such as the easterly wave and tropical cyclones. Uniform, very warm temperatures in all seasons. Ample precipitation, heaviest when the itcz is nearby. Larger temperature range than wet equatorial climate. Dominance of the itcz during the heavy rainfall period and the subtropical high pressure system during the dry season. Trade-wind coast climates are a result of mt and me air masses. Climates 1 and 2 (south america, malaysia, india, ) Extensive river systems used as a means to travel among different communities. Warm weather and abundant rainfall promotes the decay and decomposition of rock resulting in a soil layer with a deep red color (due to iron-oxides)
