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.