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 flooding was caused by an atmospheric river, or a long, narrow stream of moist air in the atmosphere, that traveled to Western Washington and dumped warm, tropic rain across the region.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
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
The winds were light, and Frightful had to work hard to keep up her speed in the warm air below the tropic of Cancer.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The tropics receive far more energy from the sun than the poles.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbit, areas outside the tropics experience one yearly peak in solar radiation near the summer solstice.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 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
Traditionally, archaeologists have regarded the wet tropics as unpromising.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
