Tropical Wet and Dry

• Avg monthly temp < 18${}^{\circ }$C
• E.g.: Bangalore
• some months rain & some dry
• Other Names:
  • Savanna Type
  • Monsoon Type
• Mean Annual Temp less than the tropical wet
• Rainfall
  • Convectional Precipitation
  • Orographic Precipitation
  • 100-150cm
  • Shifting ITCZ
  • reduces pole-wards
    • shorter periods of ITCZ control
• Equator ward regions
  • longer duration of summers
  • 🥇to receive moisture filled extended S-E trade winds
  • more rainfall than pole ward
• Annual temp variation = 3-10${}^{\circ }$C
• Vegetation
  • variable
  • Pole ward
    • grasses
    • acacia (thorny babul / kikar trees)
      • also found in southern regions
  • Equator ward
    • deciduous trees
      • sal & teak ➡️ moist deciduous