climate on Earth is very diverse.Somewhere, almost every day there is rain, and elsewhere do not escape from the heat.Still, the weather conditions are subject to its laws.And just looking at the map of the world, a person with a high degree of confidence can say what in a given part of the world climate.Did you know that, for example, in the Russian Far East and India the same type of climate?Strange but true.
monsoon climate on planet Earth
So what are the main features of this type?Well, firstly, the monsoon climate is typical for those areas of the world, where in the winter and in the summer there is a change in wind direction.And in a more global scale - movement of air masses.Monsoon - a wind that generally blows from the mainland in the winter, and in summer - from the sea.But often, and vice versa.
such as the wind can bring heavy rainfall and suffocating heat.And so the main characteristic of the monsoon climate - is the abundance of water in the summer and the almost complete lack of it during the cold period.This distinguishes it from other types where rainfall during the year are distributed more or less uniformly.There are, however, places in the world where it is not so obvious.In some areas of Japan, for example, the climate is also monsoon.But thanks to the geographic location and characteristics of the relief, there are rains almost all year round.
Generally, monsoon climate distributed only at certain latitudes.As a rule, it is subtropical, tropical and sub-equatorial belt.For the temperate latitudes, as well as for the equatorial zone, it is not typical.
Species
mainly due to the terrain and latitude monsoon climate is usually divided into several types.And, of course, each of them has its own peculiarities.Moderate monsoon climate is found in the Far East of Russia, China, North Korea and parts of Japan.In winter, the area a little rain, but quite cold because of the air masses from eastern Siberia.In summer, more moisture.But in Japan - on the contrary.The average temperature of the coldest month in the region - a minus twenty, and warm 22.
Subequatorial
distributed mainly in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.In addition, the climate is tropical monsoon (as it is called) is found in the corresponding latitudes of Africa and southern Asia, and America.Here, as warm as in the tropics.
Subequatorial tropical monsoon climate is divided into several subtypes.They all belong to the respective zones of the earth.So it is continental, oceanic and monsoon western and eastern shores.The first subtype is characterized by a sharp difference in the seasonal rainfall.In winter they are almost there, but in summer falls almost annual rate.As an example, the African state of Chad and Sudan.
oceanic tropical monsoon subtype is characterized by small amplitude of both annual and daily temperatures.Usually, it is from 24 to 28 degrees Celsius.The dry period in these parts lasts very long.
Monsoons western shores - is an Indian and the West.In the dry season there is also almost no rainfall, but in the rainy simply an abnormal amount.This happens, for example, in some areas of India.And in Cherrapunji falls very high rainfall in the world - twenty one thousand millimeters!
In this climate is unusual and also the course of annual temperatures: their maximum in the spring.
Monsoon eastern coasts also different prolonged rainy periods.However, the maximum moisture falls at the end of the summer or September, as in Vietnam, where the dry season falls just seven percent of the rainfall.
monsoon climate of the Far East
Basically, these conditions exist in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krai and Sakhalin.Winter in this area is dry: it accounts for 15 to 25 percent of the annual rainfall.Spring also brings a lot of rain.
summer monsoon prevails from the Pacific Ocean.But the impact it has on climate only coastal areas.
In the lower reaches of the Amur winter, on the contrary, the snow, the average temperature - minus 22. In the summer, too, not hot within plus 14.
On Sakhalin, the harsh winter, but in the south-west of the island is much warmer because of the Sea of Japan.Summer is cool.
Kamchatka January temperature ranges from -18 to -10 degrees Celsius.The same can be said of July: from +12 to +14, respectively.
Monsoons have a significant impact on the climate in many regions of the planet.It is impossible to say for sure, positive or negative.However, the surprises of weather, characteristic of this type of climate, people need to be ready at all times.Perhaps in the future we will have to increasingly deal with its manifestations such as, for example, tap the Amur.
