Land breeze sets in a couple of hours after sunset
These monsoons are associated with extensive clouds and precipitation in Indian sub-continet, these occur due to extreme heating of the Asian land mass during summer. This refers to South West Monsoon.
The monsoons occuring from November to March is known as North East Monsoon
The zone of light and variable winds which form a narrow belt in equatorial region is known as the Doldrum belt
Roaring forties refers to gale force wind in Westerlies Belt
During North east monsoons, the wind circulates in clockwise direction around the anti-cyclone developing during the cooling of the Asian land mass during winter.
Bora and Mistral are example of katabatic wind
Anabatic wind blow uphill during daytime
Divergence occurs at the surface of earth between 30 degrees and 40 degrees North and South.
The thunderstorm that occurs at night over Strait of Malacca is known as
'Horse latitude' refers to Subtropical anticyclone belt
Intense depression developed due to extreme heating of Asian land mass during South-west monsoons refers to area with low atmospheric pressure.
Monsoons occurs in
Sea breeze is generally stronger than land breeze.
The sea breeze generally sets in by about 1000 or 1100 hours local time
South West monsoons occur from June to September.
The area in low latitude in which trade winds of the two hemispheres converge is known as ITCZ
Katabatic wind blow downhill at night
The type of winds blowing up hill during day time is known as Anabatic wind
The common cloud found in Trade wind belt area is Cumulus
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