The climate is typical of tropical islands of similar latitude.

The mixed results were a combination of reliability problems ( exacerbated by the tropical climate ), limited pilot training in fighter-to-fighter combat, and restrictive rules of engagement that generally prohibited BVR ( beyond visual range ) engagements.

The British Virgin Islands enjoy a tropical climate, moderated by trade winds.

The Brazilian Amazon sustains about 40 % of the world's remaining tropical rainforests and plays vital roles in maintaining biodiversity, regional hydrology and climate, and terrestrial carbon storage.

It has a tropical, humid climate, with temperatures moderated by trade winds.

The British Virgin Islands enjoy a tropical climate, moderated by trade winds.

The climate in Brunei is tropical equatorial and humid subtropical at higher altitudes with heavy rainfall.

Bandar Seri Begawan's climate is tropical equatorial with two seasons.

Burkina Faso has a primarily tropical climate with two very distinct seasons.

Burundi in general has a tropical highland climate, with a considerable daily temperature range in many areas.

The Bailey system, based on climate, is divided into seven domains ( polar, humid temperate, dry, humid, and humid tropical ), with further divisions based on other climate characteristics ( subarctic, warm temperate, hot temperate, and subtropical ; marine and continental ; lowland and mountain ).

Cambodia's climate, like that of the rest of Southeast Asia is dominated by monsoons, which are known as tropical wet and dry because of the distinctly marked seasonal differences.

The climate varies with terrain, from tropical along the coast to semiarid and hot in the north.

The Cayman Islands have a tropical marine climate, with a wet season of warm, rainy summers ( May to October ) and a dry season of relatively cool winters ( November to April ).

Clipperton Island has a tropical oceanic climate, with average temperatures of.

The country has a tropical and subtropical climate and is part of the Neotropic ecozone.

The climate of Côte d ' Ivoire is generally warm and humid, ranging from equatorial in the southern coasts to tropical in the middle and semiarid in the far north.

The Tethys Sea connecting the tropical oceans east to west also helped in warming the global climate.

Leaf litter and humus are rapidly oxidized and poorly retained in sub-tropical and tropical climate conditions due to high temperatures and extensive leaching by rainfall.

The five primary classifications can be further divided into secondary classifications such as rain forest, monsoon, tropical savanna, humid subtropical, humid continental, oceanic climate, Mediterranean climate, steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert.

A tropical savanna is a grassland biome located in semiarid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes, with average temperatures remain at or above year round and rainfall between and a year.

Papua New Guinea is largely mountainous, and much of it is covered with tropical rainforest.

The Andean potato is adapted to the short-day conditions prevalent in the mountainous equatorial and tropical regions where it originated.

The natural environment of Java is tropical rainforest, with ecosystem ranged from coastal mangrove forest on north coast, rocky coastal cliff on southern coast, low-lying tropical forest, to high altitude rainforest on slopes of mountainous volcanic regions in the interior.

Guadalcanal is mainly covered in tropical rainforest and jungle, and it has a mountainous interior with an active volcano, Mount Popomanaseu.

The Earth has a vast range of landscapes including the icy landscapes of polar regions, mountainous landscapes, vast arid desert landscapes, islands and coastal landscapes, densely forested or wooded landscapes including past boreal forests and tropical rainforests, and agricultural landscapes of temperate and tropical regions.

The primary or old growth forest consists of small portions of tropical rain forest and lower mountainous rain forest, which constitutes the majority of the forest ecosystem.

Its range is from the mountainous areas of tropical South America and southern Central America ( Panama and Costa Rica ).

The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, shrubland and mountainous terrain, and are also known from Europe in the fossil record.

Great Horned Owls can take up residence in trees that include deciduous, coniferous, and mixed forests, tropical rainforests, pampas, prairie, mountainous areas, deserts, subarctic tundra, rocky coasts, mangrove swamp forests, and some urban areas.

The Subtropical Highland variety ( Köppen climate classification: Cwb ) of the oceanic climate exists in elevated portions of the world that are either within the tropics or subtropics, though it is typically found in mountainous locations in some tropical countries.

The larger islands are volcanic in origin, mountainous, and covered in tropical moist forest.

The subtropical highland variety of the oceanic climate exists in elevated portions of the world that are within either the tropics or subtropics, though it is typically found in mountainous locations in some tropical countries.

While 3 Cdo Bde RM are the principal cold weather warfare formation, personnel are capable of operating in a variety of theatres including tropical jungle, desert or mountainous terrain.

It weakened over the mountainous terrain, and after becoming a tropical depression over the Caribbean, Bret hit southern Nicaragua on the August 10 with 45 mph ( 72 km / h ) winds.

Flying mainly to small airfields in mountainous, tropical Laos, the airline acquired a not-too-favorable reputation for safety, several flights being lost over the years.

Aside from the mountainous areas, Ciress is a warm planet, with climates ranging from tropical to temperate.

Yúcahu was believed to live and have a throne in the mountainous tropical rainforest ' El Yunque ', now known as the El Yunque National Forest.

The Papuan Gulf's central and eastern interior slowly rises to meet the mountainous Southern Highlands, and is covered in a variety of inland swamps and dense tropical hardwood forests.

The hurricane rapidly weakened after moving ashore into the mountainous terrain of Guatemala, and within six hours of landfall the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm.

After crossing Puerto Rico, Jeanne reached hurricane strength on September 16 near the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola, but fell back to tropical storm strength later that day as it moved across the mountainous island.

Passing south of Jamaica as a tropical storm, Fifi brought heavy rains to the mountainous island, exceeding in some locations.

After 36 hours with much of its circulation over mountainous terrain, Eloise deteriorated to a tropical storm on September 17.