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Here is an article and video explaining monsoons

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Episode available within Canada only.

Monsoon has been named the People's Choice Award winner at TIFF's annual Canadian Top Ten Film Festival.

Watch a feature length version of this film in the theatres.Visit the official site.

Monsoon is India's main source of fresh water. Despite the torrential deluge, massive flooding and loss of life, there is a palpable sense of elation as the monsoon storm clouds arrive. Part road movie, part spectacle, part human drama, The Mystery of The Monsoon is a cinematic exploration of the force of the monsoon and its unpredictability. With people's very existence dependent on the monsoon, meteorology occupies a special place in India but even with satellite imagery and powerful computer models, scientists struggle to more accurately predict it.

Filmed across the Indian sub-continent and charting the huge system's path as it surges toward and gradually engulfs every region of the country, The Mystery of the Monsoon introduces us to a remarkable array of individuals whose lives are in different ways entwined with the phenomenon. There are the meteorologists, who seek to contain the monsoon within an explanatory net of scientific analysis and rational forecast; there are the farmers and fishermen, who depend on and contend with the system's godlike, life-and-death caprices; there are the citizens of Mumbai, where the monsoon's arrival is felt from the slums to the stock market to the dreamscapes of the Bollywood film; there are the nature conservationists who are concerned with the monsoon's impact on the country's endangered species; and there is the ordinary Indian family, for whom the annual deluge is part of a rhythmic cycle, at moments unfathomably cruel and joyously affirming.

Some call monsoon the greatest show on earth

A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, The Mystery of the Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.

Credits (Click to expand)

The Nature of Things
With David Suzuki
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The Mystery of the Monsoon

written, produced & directed by
Sturla Gunnarsson

produced by
Ina Fichman

editors
Nick Hector CCE
Amanda Strachan

assistant camera / data management
Ari Gunnarsson

sound designer
Sylvain Bellemare

sound re-recording mixers
Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Luc Boudrias
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line producers
Olivier Pelenc
Christine Rocheleau

production services and location fixer
Amit Vachharajani - Backpack Films

location research and production
Jay Bajaj

location managers
Abhra Bhattacharya
Rajesh Prabhakar
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researchers
Rajiv Acharya - Speaking Tree
Charmaine Carvalho
Swapna David
Flavie Halais
Terry Foxman

production supervisor
Constance Cook

accounting
Claude Desrochers
Jeanne d'Arc Mukashema
Paola Palacios

production executive
Judy Koonar

Point du Jour
France

colourist
Charles Boileau

additional SFX editing
Mathieu Beaudin

archives
"Rimjhim Gire Sawan"
mukhda from the film "MANZIL"

Monsoon Malabar
Bombay Dub Orchestra
written, arranged and produced by Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay
published by Six Degrees Music (ASCAP)
courtesy of Six Degrees Records
(p) 2008 Six Degrees Records
ISRC: US6DR0801326
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insurance
Front Row Insurance

financial institution
National Bank of Canada

legal services
Lussier Khouzam
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produced with the participation of

with the support of
Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée

with the assistance of
La PROCIREP - Société des Producteurs
L'ANGOA

ISAN # 0000-0003-EE55-0000-H-0000-0000-N (LOGO)
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produced in association with
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

senior producer
FM Morrison

executive producer
Sue Dando
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ARTE France
unité découverte et connaissance
Hélène Coldefy
Catherine Alvaresse

a Canada - France Co-production
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Point du Jour

Monsoon Ontario

production

all Rights reserved
©2014 Intuitive Pictures II inc. a subsidiary of Intuitive Pictures - Point du Jour - ARTE France - Monsoon Ontario

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for the nature of things

online editing
Adam Champ

associate director
Renée Moreau

executive producer
Sue Dando

produced by
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Episode available within Canada only. Monsoon has been named the People's Choice Award winner at TIFF's annual Canadian Top Ten Film Festival. Watch a feature length version of this film in the theatres.Visit the official site. Monsoon is India's main source of fresh water.

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Here is an image of the different wind patterns during the winter and summer months of a monsoon.

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As mentioned before, monsoons are caused by differences in temperatures between the land and the sea. The main cause of this is that water has a much higher heat capacity (the higher it is, the more difficult it is to change temperature) than land. This means that the temperature on land will fluctuate much more than the ocean during different seasons.

During summer, the land will heat up much faster than the ocean. This means the air above the land will expand and have a lower relative pressure than the area over the water. This will cause the moist air over the ocean to flow to the land. This air will then rise and cool, lowering its ability to carry water, and causing the rain monsoons are associated with.

In the winter, the opposite happens. Since the ocean is warmer, the air over it has a lower pressure, causing air to flow from land to ocean. The air rises and causes rain. On land, this usually means very little rainfall and drought, since all of the rain is happening elsewhere

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Here is a video explaining monsoons, with a focus on India.

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A monsoon is the seasonal changes in the circulation of air in the atmosphere, in addition to the rain associated with the different temperatures of the land and the sea. This includes a wet phase (which is usually what people refer to when they bring up monsoons) and a dry phase.

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As the title states, monsoons happen in south-east Asia. They are also common in West Africa and Northern Australia. Below is a map which shows the target area and how much rainfall they get during the wet season of monsoons.

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by James Pierson