GGR100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Detritivore, Vadose Zone, Appalachian Mountains
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Tropical: consistent daylength and insolation input, warm oceans, unstable maritime airmasses, tropical rain forest climate: brazil hot and rainy year roung. Dry: subtropical high-press areas are arid deserts, rain shadows (mountain lee environments) are semiarid steppes, subtropical hot desert: intensly aris, hot especially in summer, very sunny, sensible heat. Dry, hot summers because cooler months aren"t frigid you can get a fair bit of veg. Winds reversed warm water piles up on south american cost preventing cold water upwelling pulls air west to east, australia is deprived of it"s warm and wet onshore winds. La nina follows el nino, strengthened walker circulation (easterlies) South america gets heavy rains, landslides, anchovy fisheries collapse. Climate changes dries things out and makes this even worse. You can measure how much water will be available at a place to replenish soil, groundwater or runoff as streams using surface water balance equation. Precipitation = ae + surplus +/- st.
