Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, occurring in, or characteristic of a region lying outside the tropics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beyond or outside of the tropics, north or south.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beyond or outside of the tropics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective occurring outside the
tropics , usually intemperate latitudes - adjective meteorology lacking or having lost tropical characteristics
Etymologies
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Examples
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A conversion to "extratropical" status means that the storm eventually loses its warm core and becomes a cold-core system.
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A conversion to "extratropical" status means that the storm eventually loses its warm core and becomes a cold-core system.
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A conversion to "extratropical" status means that the tropical storm eventually loses its warm core and becomes a cold-core system.
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Extreme weather events such as extratropical storms REDUCE during warming periods, as you’d expect from the fundamentals of meteorology that Tim Ball explained.
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Separating extratropical zonal wind variability and mean change.
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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No clear consensus has been reached about how extratropical cyclones are likely to change, as the results differ between the relatively few studies that have been conducted.
Arctic climate change scenarios for the 21st century projected by the ACIA-designated models 2009
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They are even counting Atlantic storms with extratropical origin 46 deg north - good grief as tropical enough to count toward our revised goal of 7-11″ storms.
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When you have less difference in temperature, you have less excitation of extratropical storms, not more.
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The difference between precipitation of evapotranspiration has a clear equatorial peak that is associated with convective cloud systems, whereas the secondary maxima (near 50°N and °S) are the result of extratropical cyclones and midlatitude convection.
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An alternative and much more plausible explanation is that variance in tropical oceans is less than variance in extratropical oceans as seen for example in the ECHO-G GCM all by itself.
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