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 ).

There is also a system of bus routes throughout the island, most of which have air conditioning due to Singapore's tropical climate.

Ptolemy lived in the 2nd century AD, three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by Hipparchus around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem by dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is referred to as a tropical coordinate system instead.

* August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US $ 1. 5 billion in damage ( 1969 dollars ).

Since these cirrus clouds arrive in advance of the frontal system or tropical cyclone, they indicate that the weather conditions may soon deteriorate.

They brought with them millions of slaves imported from Africa to support the tropical plantation system that spread through the Caribbean islands.

* Analog forestry – system of planned, managed forests, primarily employed in tropical or subtropical areas.

Yangon has a tropical monsoon climate under the Köppen climate classification system.

Cyclone, tropical cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon are different names for the same phenomenon a cyclonic storm system that forms over the oceans.

The highest water level ever recorded in the Bay of Fundy system occurred at the head of the Minas Basin on the night of October 4 – 5, 1869 during a tropical cyclone named the “ Saxby Gale ”.

Under the Köppen climate classification system, Metro Manila is split between a tropical wet and dry climate and a tropical monsoon climate.

Writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas popularized the term " River of Grass " to describe the sawgrass marshes, part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps, the estuarine mangrove forests of the Ten Thousand Islands, tropical hardwood hammocks, pine rockland, and the marine environment of Florida Bay.

The next day, the system gained sufficient organization to become a tropical depression.

The system degenerated in to an open tropical wave the next morning, and remained in that state for nearly two days.

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

In the intervening years of 1975 – 2001, subtropical storms were either named from the traditional list and considered tropical in real-time, or used a separate numbering system.

Like the City of Naples to the north, Marco Island enjoys a tropical climate, specifically a tropical wet and dry or savanna type ( Aw under the Köppen system ).

The last tropical system to hit Westport was Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday, August 28, 2011, which hit the town at about and brought mostly wind which knocked down many trees and tree branches.

* Tropical cyclone – A tropical cyclone is a storm system with a closed circulation around a centre of low pressure, fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and condenses.

As a talented radio repairman, Tubby soon found himself in great demand by most of the major sound systems of Kingston, as the tropical weather of the Caribbean island, ( often combined with sabotage by rival sound system owners ) led to malfunctions and equipment failure.

The Köppen climate classification system was strongly influenced by effects of temperature and precipitation upon tree growth, and his oversimplified assumptions resulted in a tropical savanna classification concept which resulted in it being considered as a " climatic climax " formation.

The loss of the tropical forests of Southeast Asia is the particular outcome of the general possible outcomes described by Ellen ( see above ) when small local ecological and social systems become part of larger system.

All species occur in freshwater habitats in tropical Africa and the Nile River system, mainly swampy, shallow floodplains and estuaries.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

There was an egg case inside the skull that had been laid by a tropical cockroach that could not possibly be found in Britain.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The previous record, 13, 200 cubic metres poured in 54 hours despite a severe tropical storm requiring the site to be covered with tarpaulins to allow work to continue, was achieved in 1992 by joint Japanese and South Korean consortiums Hazama Corporation and the Samsung C & T Corporation for the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa.

Scientists estimate that one fifth of the world's tropical rainforest was destroyed between 1960 and 1990.

DDT was less effective in tropical regions due to the continuous life cycle of mosquitoes and poor infrastructure.

Before DDT, malaria was successfully eradicated or curtailed in several tropical areas by removing or poisoning mosquito breeding grounds and larva habitats, for example by filling or applying oil to standing water.

He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, and historian of science.

The unit was redefined in terms of the tropical year at 1900. 0 instead of the sidereal year ; and the standard second was defined first as 1 / 31556925. 975 of the tropical year at 1900. 0, and then as the slightly modified fraction 1 / 31556925. 9747 instead, finally being redefined in 1967 / 8 in terms of the cesium atomic clock standard ( see below ).

One of them, the Irish monk Dungal, asserted that the tropical gap between our habitable region and the other habitable region to the south was smaller than Macrobius had believed.

In tropical British colonies gin was used to mask the bitter flavour of quinine, which was the only effective anti-malarial compound.

In India and other tropical regions, malaria was a persistent problem.

The dairy industry was further handicapped by the difficulties of trying to transport milk over poor roads in a tropical country, as well as by stiff competition in the domestic market from subsidized foreign imports, mostly from the United States.

The deadliest disease was malaria, endemic throughout tropical Africa.

International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 ( ITTA, 1994 ) was drafted to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originated from sustainably managed sources and to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach this objective.