Sentences with phrase «monsoon rain patterns»

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The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

As climate patterns become more unpredictable, rice farmers are relying on a modern way of to forecast the monsoon rains.

With regard to models, even the early ones reproduce the basic pattern of monsoon changes, but there has been continuing difficulty in getting the rain band to move far enough North.

It also suggests that irrigation may be altering the pattern of the Asian monsoon, the rains that feed nearly half of the world's population.