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word ‘monsoon’ has been derived from the Arabic word Mausim which means season. The climate of India is described as the monsoon type. The monsoon word...

(see the chapters before on rainfall). Late summer monsoon, weak summer monsoon and early winter monsoon can all lead to drought. Hot winds from the Gobi...

because the friction of the air is large, due to the dense vegetation cover. Exception: In monsoon areas, onshore and offshore monsoon winds are frequent....

India and across the Indian Ocean is dominated by torrential monsoon rains. Monsoons also affect parts of Africa and South America. The savannas regions...

sea in winter. Monsoon winds are incredibly strong because they occur in coastal areas with extremely high summer temperatures. Monsoons are common wherever...

aspects of monsoons are as follows: Summer monsoon or SW monsoon in India and Southeast Asia. The Australian NW monsoon. The West African monsoon. The winter...

called monsoons. Monsoon comes from the Arabic word mawsim, which means season. A monsoon is any seasonal period of abundance of rainfall, but monsoons associated...

provide a more strategically located base in the East Indies with favorable monsoon winds. The Dutch found what they were looking for in Jakarta, conquered...

Insolation Heat Budget Temperature of the Atmosphere Air pressure Wind The Monsoon Humidity Precipitation Fog and Clouds Cyclones Further Reading – References...

strengthening of the Asian monsoons. See for example Valdiya (1999) Rising Himalaya: Advent and intensification of monsoon, Current Science, 76(4); also...

divided into subcategories. Some of these subcategories are forest (f), monsoon (m), and wet/dry (w) types, based on the amount of precipitation and season...

are produced in tropical conditions with seasonal alternation between a monsoon season and a dry season, and so the corresponding paleosols indicate such...

straddles the fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and is subject to annual monsoon floods and cyclones. The government is a secular parliamentary democracy...

replenished, by rain during monsoons. Monsoon rains, are essential, to our agriculture and our economy. When our monsoon fails, our food production reduces...

Figure 2: Number of Disasters by Origin: Regional Distribution, 1995–2004 Monsoon Floods in Kathmandu, Nepal Risk types vary and increase depending on a...

year-to-year fluctuations in farm production result in from the vagaries of the monsoon, it has not eliminated them. Non- traditional crops of India, such as summer...

About 78% of Hong Kong's rainfall falls in summer. Wet southeasterly monsoons and typhoons bring rainstorms from the ocean. (See E2) Landslides occur...

Present Sylheti words for different seasons, like "summer," "winter," "monsoon," etc. - Describe the climate in Sylhet and its impact on daily life. -...

Calves G. (2008). Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity, Nature Geoscience, 1, 875 - 880. Condie K. C. (1998). Origin...

culture. - Present Sylheti words for seasons like "summer," "winter," "monsoon," and weather-related terms like "sunny," "rainy," "cloudy," etc. - Describe...