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Subtropics

Index Subtropics

The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics. [1]

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  1. 95 relations: Addis Ababa, Alexandria, Virginia, Alicante, Aloe vera, American Meteorological Society, Apple, Arecaceae, Aridity, Australia, Avocado, Brazil, Cairo, Cape Town, Chile, China, Citrus, Continental climate, Da Lat, Dracaena (plant), Earth, Eastern Europe, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Ethiopia, Geographical zone, Hadley cell, Heidelberg, High-pressure area, Holdridge life zones, Horse latitudes, Humid subtropical climate, India, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Intertropical Convergence Zone, Italian Riviera, Japan, Köppen climate classification, Leslie Holdridge, Lima, List of regions of China, Los Angeles, Lychee, Mainland Southeast Asia, Mango, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean Sea, Mexican Plateau, Mexico City, Middle East, Middle latitudes, ... Expand index (45 more) »

  2. Climate zones

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (fountain of hot mineral water, new flower) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Alicante

Alicante (Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain.

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Aloe vera

Aloe vera is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe.

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American Meteorological Society

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences.

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Apple

An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus spp.'', among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica).

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

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Aridity

Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Avocado

The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (Persea americana) is a medium-sized, evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae).

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Continental climate

Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).

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Da Lat

Da Lat or Dalat (Đà Lạt), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam.

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Dracaena (plant)

Dracaena is a genus of about 120 species of trees and succulent shrubs.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems

The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Geographical zone

The five main latitude regions of Earth's surface comprise geographical zones, divided by the major circles of latitude.

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Hadley cell

The Hadley cell, also known as the Hadley circulation, is a global-scale tropical atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the equator, flowing poleward near the tropopause at a height of above the Earth's surface, cooling and descending in the subtropics at around 25 degrees latitude, and then returning equatorward near the surface.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg (Heidlberg) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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High-pressure area

A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the surrounding regions.

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Holdridge life zones

The Holdridge life zones system is a global bioclimatic scheme for the classification of land areas.

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Horse latitudes

The horse latitudes are the latitudes about 30 degrees north and south of the Equator. Subtropics and horse latitudes are climate zones.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal.

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Intertropical Convergence Zone

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ, or ICZ), known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, is the area where the northeast and the southeast trade winds converge.

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Italian Riviera

The Italian Riviera or Ligurian Riviera (Riviera ligure; Rivêa lìgure) is the narrow coastal strip in Italy which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain chain formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Leslie Holdridge

Leslie Ransselaer Holdridge (September 29, 1907 – June 19, 1999) was an American botanist and climatologist.

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Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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List of regions of China

This is a list of traditional top-level regions of China.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lychee

Lychee (Litchi chinensis) is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Mango

A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mexican Plateau

The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano (Altiplano mexicano), is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Middle latitudes

The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) are a spatial region on Earth located between the Tropic of Cancer (latitudes) to the Arctic Circle, and Tropic of Capricorn (-) to the Antarctic Circle (-). They include Earth's subtropical and temperate zones, which lie between the two tropics and the polar circles.

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Monsoon trough

The monsoon trough is a portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Western Pacific,Bin Wang.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Pear

Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in late summer into mid-autumn.

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Pistachio

The pistachio (Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating in Persia.

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Pomegranate

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.

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Pteridophyte

A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that reproduces by means of spores.

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Radford University

Radford University is a public university in Radford, Virginia, United States.

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast, the Southeast, or the South, is a geographical region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.

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Southern California

Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Southern Europe

Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia.

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Subtropical cyclone

A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Taxaceae

Taxaceae, commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Time Life

Time Life is an American company formerly known for its production company and direct marketer conglomerate known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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Trade winds

The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.

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Trewartha climate classification

The Trewartha climate classification (TCC), or the Köppen–Trewartha climate classification (KTC), is a climate classification system first published by American geographer Glenn Thomas Trewartha in 1966.

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Tropic of Cancer

The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.

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Tropic of Capricorn

The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point at the December (or southern) solstice.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. Subtropics and tropics are climate zones and physical geography.

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University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UW–Stevens Point or UWSP) is a public university in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Wladimir Köppen

Wladimir Petrovich Köppen (translit,; 25 September 1846 – 22 June 1940) was a Russian–German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.

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Yucca

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.

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30th parallel

30th parallel may refer to.

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35th parallel north

The 35th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 35 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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35th parallel south

The 35th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 35 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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See also

Climate zones

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropics

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