Sentences with phrase «on seasonal monsoon»

Less famous than the Silk Road — its land - based parallel — the maritime web of commerce and cultural exchange operated on seasonal monsoon winds.

Not exact matches

Lead author Dr Debbie Polson, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «This study shows for the first time that the drying of the monsoon over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural climate variability and that human activity has played a significant role in altering the seasonal monsoon rainfall on which billions of people depend.»

The tilt of the Earth on its axis also favored increased solar radiation, and helped create seasonal extremes and prime conditions for fire in some parts of the world, increased monsoons (defined) in other regions, and sweeping changes in the biological makeup of the landscape.

Seasonal forecasting of East Asian summer monsoon based on oceanic heat sources.

In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.