Science · 6 pages · 12 min
How a monsoon is a seasonal wind
A monsoon is a seasonal reversal of the wind, and the rains ride the moist phase.
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From the opening
A monsoon is a wind system that reverses direction with the seasons because land and ocean heat and cool differently. The famous rainy season is what the moist onshore phase of that wind does when the air is lifted, not the definition by itself. The opening covers land heats faster than the sea, the wind reverses with the season, and rain is the moist phase, not the definition.
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Inside
- Land heats faster than the sea
- The wind reverses with the season
- Rain is the moist phase, not the definition
- A wet season is not always a monsoon
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- The seasonal reversal of monsoon winds
- Land-sea heating contrast as the driver