GEOG 102 Lecture 12: Geog 102: Tropical Climatology Week 8, Lecture 12
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Tropics occupy 4 main areas: tropical asia; most of india, southeast asia, and northern australia, tropical africa, including madagascar, tropical america; caribbean region and northern south america, tropical ocean and oceanic islands. Tropical asia: equatorial monsoon climates, influenced by both monsoons and itcz, dry and wet monsoon climates, dry tropical climate; both monsoons bring little precipitation. Tropical africa: equatorial zone 10-12 humid months, west africa and southern sudan, southern tropical africa, east africa, madagascar. The main precip zone lies between 3n - 10 n, shifting to 5 n - 24n in july: tropical atlantic: main zone of precipitation lies at 4 n - 10n, stretching from african coast to 50w,. Associated with itcz, small seasonal differences: indian ocean: max precip between may and october but there is frequent rain from jan- Agriculture is man economic mainstay of tropical countries. Much of food is produced on subsistence basis. Climate is important factor in production of food.
