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A

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Arabian Sea Branch of the Southwest Monsoon

The Arabian Sea Branch is one of two limbs of the Indian southwest summer…

B

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Bay of Bengal Branch of the Southwest Monsoon

The Bay of Bengal branch is the easterly arm of the Indian southwest monsoon…

Break in the Monsoon

A break in the monsoon is a temporary cessation or marked weakening of…

Burst of the Monsoon

The burst of the monsoon is the sudden, violent onset of the southwest monsoon…

C

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Cherrapunji and Mawsynram Orographic Rainfall

Cherrapunji and Mawsynram, located on the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, receive…

Classical Theory of Monsoon (Halley's Thermal Concept)

The classical theory of monsoon attributes seasonal wind reversal to…

Coromandel Coast

The Coromandel Coast is the southeastern coastal plain of peninsular India…

D

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Differential Heating Theory of Monsoon

The differential heating theory explains monsoons as seasonal wind reversals…

E

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El Nino Southern Oscillation

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a recurring climate pattern in the tropical…

Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation (EQUINOO)

EQUINOO is an atmospheric oscillation over the equatorial Indian Ocean, defined…

F

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Flohn's Dynamic Concept of Monsoon

Flohn's dynamic concept attributes the Indian monsoon to seasonal latitudinal…

I

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Indian Ocean Dipole

The Indian Ocean Dipole is an irregular oscillation of sea-surface temperatures…

Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is the low-pressure belt near the equator…

K

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Kharif Cropping Season

The Kharif cropping season in India covers crops sown with the onset of the…

Koppen Climate Classification of India

The Köppen climate classification of India applies Wladimir Köppen's…

L

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Long Period Average (LPA) of Rainfall

The Long Period Average of rainfall is the mean rainfall recorded over a fixed…

M

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Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)

The Madden-Julian Oscillation is an eastward-moving disturbance of cloud,…

Mango Showers

Mango showers are pre-monsoon thunderstorm rains occurring in April and May…

Mascarene High

The Mascarene High is a semi-permanent subtropical high-pressure cell over the…

Monsoon Trough

The monsoon trough is a low-pressure zone of converging winds over the Indian…

N

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Northeast Monsoon (Retreating Monsoon)

The Northeast Monsoon is the seasonal reversal of winds over the Indian…

R

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Retreating Monsoon and Coromandel Coast Rainfall

The retreating monsoon is the autumn withdrawal of the southwest monsoon over…

S

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Somali Jet (Findlater Jet)

The Somali Jet is a strong low-level cross-equatorial wind current along the…

Southern Oscillation

The Southern Oscillation is the see-saw of atmospheric pressure between the…

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

The Southern Oscillation Index measures the standardized atmospheric pressure…

Subtropical Westerly Jet Stream

The subtropical westerly jet stream is a fast, narrow band of high-altitude…

Subtropical Westerly Jet Stream

The subtropical westerly jet stream is a fast, high-altitude west-to-east air…

T

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Thermal Low over Northwest India

The thermal low over northwest India is a seasonal low-pressure area that forms…

Tibetan Plateau Heating and the Monsoon

Tibetan Plateau heating is the seasonal warming of the elevated Tibetan…

Tropical Easterly Jet

The Tropical Easterly Jet is a high-altitude easterly wind current in the upper…

Tropical Easterly Jet Stream (Somali Jet)

The Tropical Easterly Jet is a high-altitude easterly wind current over the…

W

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Walker Circulation

The Walker Circulation is an east-west atmospheric loop over the equatorial…

Western Disturbances

Western disturbances are extratropical cyclonic storms originating over the…