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Recent observations have revealed that the intensity and duration of heating of Tibet Plateau has a direct bearing on the amount of rainfall in India by the monsoons. When the summer temperature of air over Tibet remains high for a sufficiently long time, it helps in strengthening the easterly ...
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1. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and S Asia, blowing from the SW in summer and from the NE in winter. 2. (in India and nearby lands) the season during which the SW monsoon blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season. [1575–85; < Dutch monssoen (now obsolete)...
2. (in India and nearby lands) the season during which the SW monsoon blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season. [1575–85; < Dutch monssoen (now obsolete) < Portuguese monção, earlier moução < Arabic mawsim season] mon•soon′al, adj. Random House Kernerman We...