About the Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest is a wonderful place, where all species in the forest are living in perfect symbiotic relationships, unfortunately, human activity is shrinking the size of the Amazon Rainforest exponentially, increasing risk of fires and the immense release of carbon into the atmosphere due to the fires that deforestation makes more likely.
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering more than 5 million square kilometers, covering parts of Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, and parts of it in several other countries in South America. The Amazon Rainforest contains many diverse species of plants, trees, animals, and insects, this tropical rainforest has a very warm, constant climate, which harbors what is among the most biotically diverse place in the world.
Climate of the Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon is located in South America, just underneath the equator. The rainforest is a warm climate typically not ranging outside of the 25-27 degrees celsius range, so much warmth is, in part, due to the latitude (distance from the equator) as it is so close to the equator it has near direct sunlight year round and days that are approximately 12 hours sun and 12 hours night, all with little variation throughout the year. The Amazon rainforest is tropical, which gets high levels of rain, as you can see on the climate graph (left) there is over 1500 mm of rain annually, mostly in their "wet" season which takes up approximately 6 months and over 75% of the precipitation drops then.
A warm ocean current (as indicated by the red line) goes right along the top of South America, near the Amazon Rainforest. Wind movements push the direction and movements of the currents, moving them through the equator, warming the waters, which have a higher heat holding capability, holding the heat for longer and getting rid of it slower than land can, the heat in the water near the amazon rainforest helps to warm the land, keeping it warm throughout the year.
Wind also helps to push the warm air from the ocean currents into the land, dropping heat throughout the continent and then picking up more while the wind circulates around the continent to the equator and back again, in a circular motion. Wind also helps to carry moisture, and precipitation over the ocean and depositing it in the tropical rainforest nearby. Both wind and air flow are huge reasons for the climate being the way it is in the Amazon Rainforest.
Wind also helps to push the warm air from the ocean currents into the land, dropping heat throughout the continent and then picking up more while the wind circulates around the continent to the equator and back again, in a circular motion. Wind also helps to carry moisture, and precipitation over the ocean and depositing it in the tropical rainforest nearby. Both wind and air flow are huge reasons for the climate being the way it is in the Amazon Rainforest.