Equatorial climate type

Rainforest climate (tropical maritime climate), savanna climate, plateau climate.

The equator passes through a tropical rain forest climate (tropical maritime climate), a tropical grassland climate and a plateau climate. Weather systems active in the equator: double trade winds, equatorial westerly winds, equatorial convergence areas, etc.

The equator is a low-pressure area, and the northeast trade winds and southeast trade winds blowing from both sides of the equator drive the seawater on both sides of the equator to flow from east to west. It is called the North Equatorial Warm Current in the north and the South Equatorial Warm Current in the south. When the equatorial warm current reaches the west coast of the ocean, it is blocked by the land, and a small part of it turns eastward, forming an equatorial countercurrent; Most of them flow to higher latitudes along the coast under the action of geostrophic bias, and the west wind drift is formed by westerly winds in the middle latitudes. When it reaches the east coast of the ocean, part of it turns to the low latitude of the west coast of the mainland and becomes the compensation current of the equatorial warm current; The other part bends to high latitudes along the west coast of the mainland, forming a polar circulation.

Extended data:

Equator, a geographical term, is the longest circumferential line in the trajectory of each point on the earth's surface with the earth's rotation. Its radius is 6378.2 kilometers and its circumference is 40075.02 kilometers ... The equator is the dividing line between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It divides the earth into two hemispheres, the northern hemisphere is in the north and the southern hemisphere is in the south, which is the baseline for dividing latitude. The equatorial latitude is 0, which is the longest latitude on the earth. At the same time, the equator is the place with the smallest acceleration of gravity on the earth.

The equator passes through Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. In these countries, people use different symbols to represent the equatorial line. For example, in Congo, people use many small stone pillars arranged in a straight line to represent the equatorial line. These small stone pillars are called equatorial piles.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Equator (geographical term)