dry monsoon

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• dry monsoon — see under ↑monsoon • • • Main Entry: ↑dry …   Useful english dictionary

• monsoon — n. 1 a wind in S. Asia, esp. in the Indian Ocean, blowing from the south west in summer (wet monsoon) and the north east in winter (dry monsoon). 2 a rainy season accompanying a wet monsoon. 3 any other wind with periodic alternations.… …   Useful english dictionary

• Monsoon (Preston School of Industry album) — Monsoon Studio album by Preston School of Industry Released 2004 Recorded in a dark unfinished basement in Seattle, 2003, engineered by Matthew Zeek Harris, mixed by Joe Reineke at Orbit Audio, Seattle …   Wikipedia

• Monsoon — This article is about the seasonal winds. For other uses, see Monsoon (disambiguation). Part of the Nature series on …   Wikipedia

• Monsoon of Indian subcontinent — Indian subcontinent with flags of individual countries A Monsoon of the Indian subcontinent is among the several geographically distributed observations of the global monsoons. In the subcontinent, it is one of oldest weather observations, an… …   Wikipedia

• Monsoon trough — August position of the ITCZ and monsoon trough in the Pacific Ocean, depicted by area of convergent streamlines in the northern Pacific The monsoon trough is that portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) which extends into or through… …   Wikipedia

• Dry line — Idealized depiction of where a dryline is located around an extratropical cyclone A dry line (also called dew point line, or Marfa front)[1] separates moist air from the Gulf of Mexico (to the east) and dry desert air from the south western… …   Wikipedia

• monsoon forest — /mɒnsun ˈfɒrəst/ (say monsoohn foruhst) noun a semi deciduous tropical forest occurring in areas which experience a monsoon climate, marked by dry periods followed by torrential rain. One of the major biomes, monsoon forest is found in areas with …  

• monsoon forest — ▪ ecology also called  dry forest  or  tropical deciduous forest   open woodland in tropical areas that have a long dry season followed by a season of heavy rainfall. The trees (tree) in a monsoon forest usually shed their leaves during the dry… …   Universalium

• monsoon —   a seasonal prevailing wind. Two types:   summer monsoon: intense heating of a continental mass in summer months due to the arrival of the heat equator causes convectional uplift over the continent and hence low pressure. This draws warm moist… …   Geography glossary

• monsoon — /mɒnˈsun / (say mon soohn) noun 1. any major wind system which reverses in direction seasonally, usually creating a difference between dry and rainy seasons. 2. a rainy season associated with a monsoon, as the wet season of northern Australia… …