Monsoons of South-East Asia by https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8 The Science of Weather Project by Kaitlin Weir en-us 2017-03-20 21:27:56 UTC 2025-11-03 10:36:42 UTC hello@padlet.com What is a Monsoon kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161337338 Monsoon, meaning season, is a change in direction of the strongest winds in a region. Monsoons tend to blow from cold regions like the Indian Ocean to warm regions like Southeast Asia. They cause wet and dry seasons throughout the tropics and originate from the Indian Ocean. Monsoons occur both in the winter and the summer months. The winter monsoon pushes cool, dry air, south, towards the tropics causing a dry winter and the summer monsoon (May and June) pushes high pressure air over the Pacific Ocean, north, towards low pressure air on land (Asia) causing a wet summer. 

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]]> 2017-03-21 01:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161366497 The Science Behind the Summer Monsoon kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161598348 The summer monsoon tends to happen between the months of April and September or just after the cool winter months turn into warm summer days. As winter ends, warm, moist air from the southwest Indian Ocean flows towards countries like East India, South China, North Australia, West New Guinea, combined known as Southeast Asia. This results in humid temperatures and heavy rainfall to these countries. 

]]> 2017-03-21 17:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161598348 Why we need Monsoon‘s in the Summer kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161598863 India and Southeast Asia rely on summer monsoon‘s for their agriculture as many areas in Southeast Asia don’t have bodies of water such as; lakes, rivers, etc. The summer monsoon fills the wells and aquifers for the entire year. They also rely on the summer monsoon as a large amount of electricity in those regions is produced by hydroelectric power plants. In order too power these plants a large amount of water is needed. 

]]> 2017-03-21 17:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161598863 Why we don’t need Monsoon‘s in the Summer kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161599282 Residence expect almost a half a meter filling their streets every summer, its what their use to and its what the buildings can handle. Although, when the summer monsoon is stronger than expected, floods can demolish the region. In cities like Mumbai, neighborhoods can be drowned reaching the highest record of 50-80ft of water in 1997. In rural areas, mudslides can bury villages and destroy crops.

]]> 2017-03-21 17:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161599282 The Science Behind the Winter Monsoon kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161624360 During winter the ground temperature is cooler than sea temperature. This results in the density and pressure of the air over the cold Asian continent to be much higher. As a result of this, a mass of cold dry air blows out from land to the ocean surface. This dry air will only absorb water vapor until it reaches the ocean surface far from land. A monsoon is most powerful in Southeast Asia because the Asian Continent is the world's largest land-mass and Southeast Asia is just off the ocean water making them its first target.

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1. What Are Monsoons, Anyway?. ThoughtCo. 2017. Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-monsoon-p2-1435342. Accessed March 21, 2017.

2. How do monsoons form?. Reference. 2017. Available at: https://www.reference.com/science/monsoons-form-f3d0810515a0be02#. Accessed March 21, 2017.

3. Effect of climate change on seasonal monsoon in Asia and its impact on the variability of monsoon rainfall in Southeast Asia. Sciencedirectcom. 2017. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498711400036X. Accessed March 21, 2017.

]]> 2017-03-21 18:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161625601 What Triggers a Monsoon kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161627065 Monsoons are triggered by the changing position of the sun in correlation to the equator. The severity of the monsoon depends on the country’s distance to the equator, to the ocean, and the existence or nonexistence of mountains within the area. ]]> 2017-03-21 18:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161627065 Location kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161630435 Located at he bottom are pictures of how far the monsoon reaches on land in the summer months as well as another shows it in the winter months. It tends to be that the monsoon covers more land mass than it would in the winter time for the reason that in the summer time floods occur. I have also posed a picture showing the wind directions. ]]> 2017-03-21 18:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161630435 kayteelyn_3 https://padlet.com/kayteelyn_3/6b2zkp2pomp8/wish/161635660
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