Indian Monsoon YouTube Lecture Handouts
Glide to success with Doorsteptutor material for competitive exams : get questions, notes, tests, video lectures and more- for all subjects of your exam.
Get video tutorial on: Examrace YouTube channel
Indian Monsoon - Factors, Theories, Phenomena & Characteristics
Indian Monsoon Factors, Theories, Phenomena & Characteristics
Dr. Manishika Jain in this lecture explains the concept of Indian Monsoon. The focus areas are the factors that affect monsoon, 3 theories of monsoon, phenomena, characteristics and regional variability of monsoons.
- Derived from the Arabic word mausin.
- Seasonal winds- reverse their direction with the change of season.
- Double system of seasonal winds – flow from sea to land during the summer and from land to sea during winter. Land and sea breeze on a large scale. Convection cells on a very large scale.
- Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia, parts of Central Western Africa
- More pronounced in the Indian Subcontinent
- South-west monsoon in summer and north-east monsoon in winter.
- South-west monsoons- intense low pressure system formed over the Tibetan plateau
- Intense rainfall to most of India
- India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar etc. south-west monsoon season
- North-east monsoons- associated with high pressure cells over Tibetan and Siberian plateaus.
- Mainly south-eastern coast of India
- South East China, Japan etc. , during north-east rainfall season.
SW Monsoon
NE Monsoon
Factors affecting monsoon are as follows
✍ Manishika