Wet Dry Tropical Climate (Aw)

Latitude/Longitude = 14^o N; 17^o W
Average Annual Temperature (^oC) = 24.5
Annual Temperature Range (^oC) = 7.1
Total Annual Precipitation (mm) = 578
Summer Precipitation (mm) = 516
Winter Precipitation (mm) = 62

A Baobab tree, with its thick trunk and large edible fruit, Dakar, Senegal.
(UN/DPI Photo #187250C by Evan Schneider)

Geographic Distribution

• Northern and eastern India, interior Myanmar (Burma) and Indo-Chinese Peninsula;

• northern Australia; south central Africa; Ilanos of Venezuela, Campos of Brazil;

• Western Central America; south Florida, and Caribbean Islands.

Controlling Factors

• Shifting influence of high-sun ITCZ and low sun STH influence.

• High sun mE air masses; low-sun cT air masses

Characteristics

• High-sun wet season, low sun dry periods.

• Rainfall less than monsoon.

• Highest temperature ranges of low latitude wet climates.