tropic
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
Anterior pituitary hormones are sometimes referred to as tropic hormones, because they control the functioning of other organs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
The tropics receive far more energy from the sun than the poles.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
What El Niño and its colder sibling pattern don’t affect, however, are “atmospheric rivers,” which can carry tremendous amounts of precipitation to California from the tropics, Ralph said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
While agricultural expansion is still the leading driver of tree cover loss across the tropics, fires played a major role worldwide, accounting for 42 percent of the destruction.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
"It was hard sometimes but getting dressed up every day, and spending months in the tropics with 30 of my friends was so much fun," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
From the first days of contact, Europeans have perceived the Indians of the tropics as living in timeless stasis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
