Talk:Tropical rainforest climate

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I think someone's trolling us with the location names of places with tropical climates..

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Climatic classification of Belém, Brazil
Belém, Brazil, has a tropical monsoon climate, according to Koeppen. --Wloveral (talk) 19:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Brunei
The Brunei temperatures seem lower than normal for that region. 119.11.31.32 (talk) 20:28, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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tropical rainforest climates can also be found on trade wind(windward side) coasts which are quite distant from the equator between 10-23 degrees north and south of the equator these places include the Caribbean coast of central America from Honduras to Panama, The Eastern and North East Sections of the mountainous Caribbean Islands where the mountains force the north east trade winds to rise creating clouds and rain, Innisfail and area in Queensland Australia, The Eastern parts of the Philipines, Hilo, Hawaii and the windward sides of the mountainous Hawaiian Islands, parts of Madagascar facing the south east trade winds, and parts of Eastern Brazil.

These climates are typically tropical humid (or hyperhumid or ultrahyperhumid) trade-wind climates with frequent cyclones but not true equatorial climates dominated by the ITCZ and with rare or 0 cyclones.Carlo Colussi (talk) 12:53, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

76.64.229.174 (talk) 22:47, 29 July 2011 (UTC) that was horbal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.77.247 (talk) 23:26, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I think the article could do with some explanation of the significance and reasons for the rainfall definition. Why was 60 mm of rainfall per month set as the lower limit? This excludes many places that are generally classified as having rainforest growing, especially in the Amazon basin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.217.86 (talk) 13:24, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Köppen considered that in tropical climates, a humid month had at least 60 mm precipitation and a dry month less. Others apply the inequality P mm < 2T °C to delimit the dry months of the wet months (though it seems that this inequality is more correct for temperate climates, in particular mediterranean climates). So when the monthly temperatures are circa 25°C-30°C (which is the case of tropical humid climates) the limit between dry and wet months is about 50-60 mm.

A tropical rainforest may "survive" with 1, 2 or 3 dry months as it is the case in the eastern Guyane Française (French Guiana) : for instance the commune of Saint-Georges (3°53'33"N 51°48'27"W), surrounded by the Amazon forest has 2 dry months according to the 60 mm limit, September (47.6 mm) and October (58.8 mm) (http://www.meteofrance.com/climat/outremer/saint-georges/97308001/normales) or only 1 dry month (September : P = 47.6 mm and T ≈ 27.35 °C (mean of 21.3 and 33.4)) with the "P mm < 2T °C" rule.

It seems that even a short dry season (inferior or equal to 3 months) may have consequences on the flora and the fauna unknown under regions with no dry season at all.

So it is possibly not inappropriate to distinguish climates with no dry season from climates with short dry seasons.

However there is not a great difference between the forest surrounding Saint-Georges and the forest near Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (with no dry season at all since the "driest" month receive 89.7 mm (http://www.meteofrance.com/climat/outremer/saint-laurent/97311001/normales).

In the Amazon biome you find mostly equatorial climates or subequatorial (1 to 3 dry months) climates (the latter or more or less correlated to the Köppen monsoon climates).

In fact, when edaphic conditions allow the tropical rainforest to grow, the climates have generally 0 to maximum 3 dry months.

At the very north of the Amazon biome (center-west of Venezuela and North of Guyana) begin the true tropical trade-wind climates which may be very wet, sometimes with no dry season as in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana ("driest" month = 97.5 mm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Guyana#Climate).

But these climates AREN'T true equatorial or subequatorial climates because the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is not the main aerological mechanism anymore since here the trade winds are dominating. These tropical trade-wind climates encompass the whole Caribbean region (and may be very humid as in Georgetown, P = 2260 mm, or subhumid or even dry in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, P = 472 mm). Carlo Colussi (talk) 12:53, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

The map shades in areas that are clearly not tropical rainforest climates.. like patagonia and the arctic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.175.150.47 (talk) 05:29, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Many tropical rainforest climates AREN'T equatorial climates
Equatorial climates are specific intertropical humid climates.

If one considers the main mechanisms of atmospheric circulation

there are two great types of intertropical climates :

1) the climates where there is the alternation "Meteorological Equator / Trade winds",

and 2) the climates where the trade winds are the norm.

The Meteorological Equator is best known under the name of Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)(what is called doldrum by the sailors)

that is the zone where boreal trade winds meet their austral counterparts.

Equatorial climates are specific tropical rainforest climates where there is

a) the alternation "Meteorological Equator / Trade winds",

b) no tropical cyclones.

The regions close to the Equator are the regions where

a) the Meteorological Equator is often present

b) there are almost never cyclones because the latter need enough Coriolis force to develop a low-pressure center but at the equator (0°) the Coriolis effect is nul.

In fact there are even three main Tropical rainforest climates :

1a) the Equatorial (and Subequatorial) climates

with the "Meteorological Equator-ITCZ / Trade winds" alternation that is that the ITCZ is present for most or a great part of the year

and with no (or rare) cyclones.

1b) the Tropical rainforest climates with the "Meteorological Equator-ITCZ / Trade winds" alternation

but with frequent cyclones (as opposed to equatorial climates)

2) the Tropical "trade wind" rainforest climates (with no or rare or frequent cyclones)

where the Meteorological Equator-ITCZ is not often present

(the ITCZ is mainly present in the equatorial regions but may go occasionally in summer at very high latitudes such as 37°N (north of the Chinese Shandong province) or 20°S (Atsinanana region in eastern Madagascar) but at those latitudes, the trade winds are the norm most of the year).

Thus, the Equatorial climates are located near the Equator (at the notable exception of the Bolivian Amazonia forest region)

while the Tropical trade wind rainforest climates

and the Tropical rainforest climates with frequent cyclones

are mainly located at higher latitudes

such as the Caribbean region, Guyana coast, Madagascar, the East Atlantic Coast of Brazil, the Philippines (except the Southwest), Taiwan, the Northeast of Australia, Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia), Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (with frequent cyclones though under the "Meteorological Equator-ITCZ / Trade winds" alternation), part of the Solomon Islands, the Samoas, etc ...

Among the "Notable cities with Tropical rainforest climates" of the article (as of Wednesday 20 March, 2019)

here is the list of cities

with Tropical trade wind rainforest climates

or Tropical rainforest climates with frequent cyclones

which aren't Equatorial climates :

Moroni, Comoros / Kisumu, Kenya (probably undergoing more trade winds than ITZC though at a very low latitude) / Antalaha, Madagascar / Manakara, Madagascar / Toamasina, Madagascar / all the North America examples : Punta Gorda, Belize / Hamilton, Bermuda / Limón, Costa Rica / Higüey, Dominican Republic / Puerto Barrios, Guatemala / La Ceiba, Honduras / Port Antonio, Jamaica / Bluefields, Nicaragua / Changuinola, Panama / West Palm Beach, United States / Fort Lauderdale, United States.

There is absolutely no equatorial climates in North America

(in particular in the USA : Fort Lauderdale has a pure trade wind climate with cyclones).

In Central America you may have

subequatorial climates

(almost equatorial climates but

either with a short dry season of 1, 2 or in certain cases 3 months

or with few cyclones)

in some very small parts of the Pacific Panama.

In South America, the equatorial climates are located in parts (and only parts) of the Amazon forest.

Even Georgetown, Guyana has a trade wind climate and not an equatorial climate.

You have to go to the East (Southeast) to find the first areas of equatorial climates in the Atlantic South America :

parts of Suriname and of Guyane Française (French Guiana).

The East Atlantic rainforest also has not an equatorial climate but a pure trade wind climate (with no cyclones however)

so Salvador, Brazil has not an equatorial climate.

Other examples of Tropical trade wind climates or "Cyclones" climates :

Ishigaki, Okinawa / Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines

(while Davao City and Polomolok at the very south of the Philippines have perhaps an equatorial climate)

Hualien, Taiwan / Orchid Island, Taiwan / Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand / Pago Pago, American Samoa / Innisfail, Australia / Suva, Fiji / Tarawa, Kiribati / Majuro, Marshall Islands.

Even

Honiara, Solomon Islands

and

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka

aren't true equatorial climates but "only" subequatorial climates because, though the "Meteorological Equator (=Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)) / Trade winds" alternation is the norm in these regions, there are rare cyclones in these cities.

Carlo Colussi (talk) 14:26, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

San Juan PR not included in cities in the americas with tropical rainforest climate
The current maps of puerto rico's koppen climate classification suggests San Juan Should be included in the list of cities in the americas with that classification. 209.91.210.0 (talk) 04:03, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Oh, it's classified as tropical monsoon. My bad! 209.91.210.0 (talk) 04:14, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

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