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Equatorial Climate
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temperatures are high, climate is hot wet and humid, rainfal is heavy and distributed throughout the year climate located 0 - 10 degrees north and south of equator, temeperatures are high 27 degrees celsius and uniform, annual temperature range is small, 2000-4000 mm of rainfall annually
e.g indonesia, amazon basin, west central africa |
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Tropical coastal (tropical maritime/marine)
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High and Uniform temperatures throughout the year, temperatures average 30-34 degrees celsius, range is as small as 3 degrees. temperatures are modified by trade winds and land and see breezes, rainfall obtained from north east reade winds, rainfall is over 1750 mm annually and of the relief and convectional type. rain comes from the ITCZ and easterly waves, has a wet and dry season
e.g west indies, central america, south mexico |
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Monsoon climate
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has cool dry, hot dry, and hot wet seasons
cool dry 0 october to january temperatures from 10 degrees to 24 degrees celsius, no rain hot dry - february-late may, 34-40 degrees clesius, low pressure little rain hot wet- june-september (early october) cloudy skies with high yet reduced temperatures e.g. the philippine islands, thailand, southern china |
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Hot(tropical) Desert
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located in outer and sub-tropics, lay in western and central parts of land masses between 15 and 30 degrees n and s
temperatures are high over 30 degrees c in summer and decrease to 10 c in cooler seasons temperatures can reach over 32 because of a cloudless sky, rainfall is under 250mm per annum e.g. sahara desert, arabian, deserts of california and mexico |
