Monsoon of South Asia
Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia Scholars of South and Southeast Asia from diverse disciplines reflect on the possibility and utility of conceiving the two areas as a single overarching region, referred to as Monsoon Asia....
As the word “monsoon” (derived from an Arabic word meaning seasons) indicates, the South Asian (SA) summer monsoon is part of an annually reversing wind system (Figure 2.1(b, e) (Ramage, 1971); (Rao, 1976)). The winds at low levels during the summer monsoon season are characterized...
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The orbital-scale timing of South Asian monsoon (SAM) precipitation is poorly understood. Here we present new SST and seawater δ18O (δ18Osw) records from the Bay of Bengal, the core convective region of the South Asian monsoon, over the past 1 million years. Our records reveal that SAM...
G. History of the Asian monsoon and its interactions with solid earth tectonics in Cenozoic South Asia. Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ. 483, 875–880 (2019). Gupta, A. K., Yuvaraja, A., Prakasam, M., Clemens, S. C. & Velu, A. Evolution of the South Asian monsoon wind system ...
英汉 英英 网络释义 monsoon n. 1. (南亚地区的)雨季,雨季的降雨a period of heavy rain in summer in S Asia; the rain that falls during this period 2. 季风,季节风(盛行于南亚地区,夏季刮西南风,带来雨水,冬季刮东北风)a wind in S Asia that blows from the south-west in summer, bringing rain...
12. Modeling studies agree that such an increase in the summer monsoon rainfall over South Asia is primarily attributed to an increase in the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere under a warmer climate12,44. In contrast, in response to SAI, rainfall significantly declines over most of ...
India,thewesternIndianOcean,andthetropicalnorthernAfrica.Incontrast,theenhancedconvectioninthevicinityof thePhilippinescorrespondstointensifiedmonsooncirculationprimarilyeastof80°EoversoutheastAsiaincludingthe Indochinapeninsula,SouthChinaSea,PhilippineSea,andtheMaritimeContinent.Tobetterreflectregionalmonsoon ...
Summary ¶This is an observational study in which regional features of the different summer monsoon components over Asia especially the South China Sea (SCS) are examined. The authors use various data sets including satellite measurements to understand the onset, maintenance, and retreat of monsoon...