monsoon
[from Arabic mausim: ‘season’]1 A wind that is persistent in direction throughout a season and also displays a pronounced change in direction from one season to another. The basic cause is strong differential heating of land and sea areas, most marked in the case of Asia, where air flowing out from the ... ...
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