The northern Australian monsoon season generally lasts from December to March. It is associated with the inflow of moist west to northwesterly winds into the monsoon trough, producing convective cloud and heavy rainfall over northern Australia.
monsoon"(Derived from Arabic mausim, a season.) A name for seasonal winds.
Monsoon: Very persistent winds which may blow for months at a time from one general wind direction during one season and then a quite different, often opposing direction for another season.
Monsoon
A seasonal wind that brings rain to many places of the world, for example India and Southern Asia
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A seasonal wind in the tropics. The northern Australian monsoon season generally lasts from December to March.
Monsoon - a name for seasonal winds, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia ...
monsoon: season of wind originating from the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, these winds are usually accompanied by heavy rains.
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MONSOON The seasonal shift of winds created by the great annual temperature variation that occurs over large land areas in contrast with associated ocean surfaces.
Monsoon - A wind caused by differences in surface temperatures. Some produce heavy rains.
Orography - the interaction of topography with meteorology
Ozone - An oxygen molecule with three atoms stuck together.
MONSOON: A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime.
MOS: Model Output Statistics.
MRF: Medium Range Forecast model generated every 12 hours by NCEP.
Monsoon -The word "monsoon" appears to have originated from the Arabic word mausim which means season.
Monsoon- a seasonal change in wind direction bringing dry air or heavy rain.
MSL- Mean sea level.
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Monsoon A wind which blow from opposite directions between winter and summer. Usually the wind blows from land to sea in winter and from sea to land in summer.
monsoon: when the principal wind direction changes noticeably with the season. The main cause is the heating and cooling of a nearby ocean depending on summer and winter, such as the Indian Ocean and the India monsoon for example.
Monsoons - Seasonal winds. They are caused primarily by the greater annual variation in air temperature over large land surfaces compared to ocean surfaces though other factors like land-relief are important.
Monsoon
(Monsoon Circulation) Wind in the general atmospheric circulation, typified by a seasonally persistent wind direction and by a pronounced change in the direction from one season to another.
Monsoon active phase A generally cloudy period with frequent deluges of rain.
Monsoon dormant phase A generally sunny and hot period that interrupts rainy monsoon episodes.
Monsoon
A thermally driven wind arising from differential heating between a land mass and the adjacent ocean that reverses its direction seasonally.
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monsoon—A wind that in summer blows from sea to a continental interior, bringing copious rain, and in winter blows from the interior to the sea, resulting in sustained dry weather.
Monsoon Heavy winds characterized by a pronounced seasonal change in direction. Winds usually blow from land to sea in the winter, while in the summer, the flow reverses and precipitation is more common.
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The term originally referred solely to the winds of the Arabian Sea which blow for about six months from the north-east (in winter) and for six months from the south-west (in summer), but now is also used for other marked seasonal winds.
Monsoon
a persistent wind throughout a season but often refers to the heavy rains that accompany them. Best known is the summer southwesterly monsoon over India followed by a northeasterly monsoon over Southeast Asia in winter.
Monsoon - A seasonal wind, found especially in Asia that reverses direction between summer and winter and often brings heavy rains.
Muggy - The description of warm and humid air.
MONSOON - A cyclic or seasonal changing of wind patterns causing an increase (or decrease) in moisture and precipitation. Monsoons are common in tropical regions that cause a rainy and a dry "season".
The monsoon winds, the name derived from the Arabic for "season," are famous feature of the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent, as well as of the high lands of Tibet.
Areas of persistent moisture convergence are favored regions for thunderstorm development, if other factors (e.g., instability) are favorable.
Monsoon- A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime.
It is one the main contributors to a monsoon in southern Asia. SIDEREAL TIME The measure of time as defined by the diurnal motion of the vernal equinox.
East Asian Monsoon. World Scientific. ISBN 9812387692.
^ United States Naval Research Laboratory (September 23, 1999). Tropical Cyclone Intensity Terminology. Tropical Cyclone Forecasters' Reference Guide. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.
monsoon A name for seasonal winds, first applied to the winds over the Arabian Sea that blow for six months from the northeast and for six months from the southwest. The term has been extended to similar winds in other parts of the world (i.e.
33 Wind: Monsoon. Change in wind direction. 34 Wind: Mountain Breeze. Nighttime. Cold. 35 Wind: Mountain Waves. Rotor Winds 36 Wind: Mt. Washington, New Hempshire. 6,288ft. 37 Wind: Mt. Washington.
To study the questions surrounding hurricane birth, NASA created the "NAMMA" campaign or NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA). This program has been designed to look at the origination point of Atlantic tropical cyclones.
Unusual weather conditions occur around the globe as jet streams, storm tracks and monsoons are shifted. Such disarray is caused by a warm current of water that appears every three to seven years in the eastern Pacific Ocean called El Niño.
For merchants carrying goods to and from India, there was an additional Plimsoll Mark, IS (Indian Summer), but this actually a misnomer. It was meant for the October to April period in the Indian Ocean when the summer monsoon season had ended and ...
Some authors may include equatorial (E), monsoon (M), or superior air (S) in their classifications. Others prefer to omit the arctic (A) type and describe all air masses on the basis of polar and tropical air, separated by the polar front.
Monsoon A seasonal wind of persistent direction, characterized by a pronounced change in direction between seasons.
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