To What Extent Do Monsoons Affect the Amount and the Distribution of Rainfall in Tropical Places?

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Monsoons affect the temporal and spatial distribution of rainfall. It causes distinct wet and dry seasons at tropical areas. This is due to the differential heating of land masses that results in a pressure gradient force created over the land masses and adjacent oceans, causing winds to travel from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure. When these winds blow from continents to continents across oceans, they get deflected due to Coriolis effect before bringing along huge amount of moisture that leads to heavy rain. In the Northern Hemisphere heavy rains are experienced between May and July when the Tropic of Cancer is facing the sun whereas little rain is experienced between November and January when the Tropic of Cancer is facing away from the sun. In the Southern Hemisphere, heavy rains are experienced between November and January during summer but little rain is experienced between May and July during winter. For example, during summer in Mumbai, India, the southeast winds blowing offshore from North Australia and reach India as moisture-laden southwest winds. Hence, Mumbai receives high rainfall of 610mm in July as the onshore winds bring large amounts of rain from across the Indian Ocean, leading to it experiencing wet season during this time of the year. Similarly, during winter in India, dry offshore cold winds blows down from the Himalayas towards the Indian Ocean as northeast monsoon winds. This causes India to receive little or even no rain (0mm-1mm) between December and January) and hence experience dry season during this part of the year. Therefore, monsoons occur during different seasons at different continents and hence affect distribution of rainfall temporarily and spatially. Convectional rain, which occurs in tropical areas between the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5°N and the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.5°S with high temperature and humidity, also

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