Meteorology

Meteorology

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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.

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 weeks. These surges ...

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 develop and move ...

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 those located off lower ...

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 expanding wind field of a ...

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 northwestward over the ...