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Tropical geometry
Tropical geometry, or tropical mathematics, replaces classical addition and multiplication with maximum and addition, turning algebraic varieties into balanced polyhedral complexes; it connects algebraic and discrete geometry.
Tropical house
Tropical house, or trop house, is a relaxed subgenre of deep house using steel drums, marimba, and pan flute, popularized in the mid-2010s by Kygo and Thomas Jack.
Tropical inner garden
Tropical inner garden (trooppinen sisäpuutarha): a heated glasshouse garden of tropical plants, exemplified by Botania in Joensuu, Finland, founded 1955, privately owned since 2018, Europe's only unfunded botanical garden.
Tropical instability waves
Tropical instability waves (TIWs) are westward-propagating ocean waves with wavelengths near 1,000 km and periods of weeks, arising from shear between the Pacific and Atlantic equatorial currents.
Tropical Islands Resort
Tropical Islands Resort, also known as Tropical Islands, is an indoor water park in Krausnick, Brandenburg, Germany, opened in 2004 inside a former airship hangar.
Tropical Malady (สัตว์ประหลาด)
Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad, สัตว์ประหลาด) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2004 Thai diptych film: a gay romance between soldier Keng and villager Tong, then a jungle hunt for a tiger spirit. It won the 2004 Cannes Jury Prize.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Tropical Medicine & International Health (TM & IH), ISSN 1360-2276, is a monthly Wiley journal founded in 1996 by merging four European tropical-medicine journals; official FESTMIH journal covering malaria, HIV, TB, and public health in low- and middle-income settings.
Tropical Modernism
Tropical Modernism is a style of modernist architecture adapted after World War II for hot, humid climates, developed by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in West Africa and India.
Tropical monsoon climate
A tropical monsoon climate, abbreviated Am in the Köppen system, is a tropical climate with seasonally reversing winds, a pronounced rainy season, and a short dry season.
Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics: tropical countries fielding Winter Games teams despite lacking winter climates; record participation at Sochi 2014, eight African nations at PyeongChang 2018, no tropical medal as of 2014.
Tropical pancreatitis
Tropical pancreatitis (tropical chronic pancreatitis), a juvenile non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis of tropical countries causing abdominal pain, steatorrhea, pancreatic calculi, and fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes; SPINK1-linked, with high pancreatic cancer risk.
Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area
中国热带植物(种质)资源收集区, Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area, a specialized living-collection zone founded in 2001 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; over 100 mu, ~1,400 accessions, 130 families, 1,000+ species, 20+ rare endangered species, part of the 万种园 project.
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE, Weingarten 1943) is a hypersensitivity lung disease from lymphatic filarial microfilariae (Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi) trapped in the lungs, causing nocturnal cough, wheezing, eosinophilia over 3,000/µL, and treated with diethylcarbamazine.
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was a joint NASA and Japanese satellite, launched in 1997, that measured tropical rainfall and operated for 17 years.
Tropical rainforest
A tropical rainforest is an evergreen forest of the tropical wet zone, found in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia, with very high rainfall and exceptional biodiversity.
Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, also called an equatorial climate, is the wettest Köppen tropical type, designated Af, with every month above 60 mm of rain and no dry season.
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra is a natural World Heritage site combining three national parks across 2.5 million hectares, on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2011.
Tropical savanna climate
The tropical savanna climate, also called the tropical wet and dry climate, is a Köppen climate type (Aw) with a pronounced dry season, covering 11.5 percent of Earth's land.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe: American fast-casual smoothie and food franchise chain founded in Destin, Florida, in 1997 (first franchise Tallahassee, 1998), about 1,800 U.S. units in 44 states, ~$1M average unit volume, owned by Blackstone since 2024, CEO Max Wetzel.
Tropical spastic paraparesis
Tropical spastic paraparesis, or HAM/TSP, is a chronic HTLV-1-caused inflammatory myelopathy of the lower thoracic cord with progressive spastic paraparesis and bladder dysfunction; steroids help, antiretrovirals do not, mogamulizumab is emerging.
Tropical sprue
Tropical sprue, also called postinfectious tropical malabsorption, is an acquired disease of unknown cause marked by chronic diarrhea, malabsorption, and nutritional deficiencies in residents of and long-term visitors to the tropics.
Tropical Storm Allison (2001)
Tropical Storm Allison was the first named storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, flooding Houston with nearly 40 inches of rain and causing about $5 billion in damage.
Tropical Storm Arthur (2026)
Tropical Storm Arthur was the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, forming near the Texas coast in June 2026 and causing record flooding in Louisiana.
Tropical Storm Bertha (2026)
Tropical Storm Bertha was the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, forming in the Gulf of Mexico in July 2026 and making landfalls in Louisiana and Texas.
Tropical Storm Boris (2026)
Tropical Storm Boris was the second named storm of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season, making landfall near the Oaxaca-Guerrero border on June 9 with heavy rain.
Tropical Storm Cristina (2026)
Tropical Storm Cristina was a weak tropical cyclone of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season that formed off Nicaragua in June 2026 and brought heavy rain to Central America.
Tropical Storm Imelda (2019)
Tropical Storm Imelda was a 2019 tropical cyclone that made landfall near Freeport, Texas, and stalled, dumping over 40 inches of rain and causing deadly floods.
Tropical Storm Jangmi (2026)
Tropical Storm Jangmi (장미), known as Domeng in the Philippines, was a 2026 Pacific cyclone that struck Wakayama, Japan in early June, causing record June rainfall and flooding.
Tropical Storm Lee (2011)
Tropical Storm Lee was the twelfth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, coming ashore in Louisiana and causing record flooding that killed 15 people.
Tropical Storm Maysak
Tropical Storm Maysak, the international name for western North Pacific cyclones, comes from a rotating Typhoon Committee list; it is a Cambodian name meaning "teak."