as in tropical
being near the equator
a lush equatorial rain forest that is threatened by rampant development
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La Niña conditions, marked by cooler-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, tend to bring drier weather to Southern California.
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
The rockets lifted off from the San Marco platform, a converted oil platform in equatorial waters off the Kenyan coast.
—Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2024
In one surprising case, the Google researchers were able to use the phone map to identify an equatorial anomaly over South Asia that went unnoticed by the few monitoring stations in the area.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
The big picture: Two new studies provide insights about factors that may have helped boost the planet's temperatures during the last two years, above what would normally be expected during a strong El Niño episode in the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
The rockets lifted off from the San Marco platform, a converted oil platform in equatorial waters off the Kenyan coast.
—Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2024
In one surprising case, the Google researchers were able to use the phone map to identify an equatorial anomaly over South Asia that went unnoticed by the few monitoring stations in the area.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
The big picture: Two new studies provide insights about factors that may have helped boost the planet's temperatures during the last two years, above what would normally be expected during a strong El Niño episode in the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Equatorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equatorial. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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