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The monsoons of the world are defined through the seasonal reversal of large-scale surface winds. The best place to see an illustration of this phenomenon is in the domain of the Indian Monsoon where the southwesterly surface winds of the summer monsoon get replaced by the northeasterly surface winds of the winter monsoon, as shown in Fig. 5.1.
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Krishnamurti, T.N., Stefanova, L., Misra, V. (2013). Monsoons. In: Tropical Meteorology. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7409-8_5
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