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Of or pertaining to the state of the atmosphere and/or the science of monitoring, measuring and interpreting meteorological changes.

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monthly climatological summary

Weather; Meteorology

A climatological summary issued on a monthly basis containing data for the month for a single station or an area.

monsoon surge

Weather; Meteorology

The temporary extension of deep monsoon flow into a region not normally dominated by persistent monsoon flow. This temporary extension or surge may last from a few days to three ...

monsoon trough

Weather; Meteorology

The line in a weather map showing the locations of relatively minimum sea level pressure in a monsoon region. Most of the active transient disturbances producing the monsoon rain ...

monsoon low

Weather; Meteorology

A seasonal low found over a continent in the summer and over the adjacent sea in the winter. Examples are the lows over the southwestern United States and India in summer and ...

monsoon gyre

Weather; Meteorology

A convection of the summer monsoon circulation of the western North Pacific characterized by 1) a very large nearly circular low-level cyclonic vortex (not the result of the ...

monsoon fog

Weather; Meteorology

(Rare. ) An advection fog produced as a monsoon circulation that transports warm moist air over a colder surface.

monsoon depression

Weather; Meteorology

A depression that forms within the monsoon trough. The term is most frequently used to describe weak cyclonic disturbances that form over the Bay of Bengal and generally track ...