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Climate of India: Controls and the Monsoon Mechanism
Geography · Chapter 6 · 1. Physical Environment
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- Factors affecting India's climate: latitude, distance from the sea, northern mountains, physiography
- Upper air circulation and jet streams; western disturbances and tropical cyclones
- Mechanism of the monsoon: pressure conditions, Southern Oscillation and El Nino
- Indian monsoon regime: onset, rain-bearing systems, break in the monsoon and retreat