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INDIA - CLIMATE 1. the type of climate found in the Indian subcontinent and its characteristic features 2. tropical Monsoon Climate Characterized -by alternation of seasons. Hot Season : March / April /May Season of the South West Monsoon : June / July / September Season of the Retreating Monsoon : October / November Cold Season : December / January / February the subcontinent is called so because: it is a large self-contained land mass separated from the rest of Asia by the Himalayas 3. 4. it shares the same unique Tropical Monsoon Type of climate similarities between monsoon winds and land-sea breeze both are caused by differential rate of heating and cooling of land and water both are periodically reversed differences between monsoon winds and land-sea breeze land and sea breeze reverses direction in the course of the day/ night while the Monsoons reverse their direction in the course of the seasons monsoons blowing from the sea bring rain while sea breezes do not as their duration is too short to pick up moisture 5. the line of latitude that passes through the center of the subcontinent 6. 7. 23 V2 o N - Tropic of Cancer the significance of that line if divides the Subcontinent into 2 climatic zones Temperate Zone in the North Torrid / Tropical Zone in the South The origin of the South West Monsoon Winds the Indian Ocean
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