Monsoon Summer

Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433572

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Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins Pdf

From the author of Rickshaw Girl and You Bring the Distant Near, a National Book Award Longlist title, comes a story about the magic of India’s monsoon season—“monsoon madness”—and all the change it brings to a teenage girl and her family. Jasmine “Jazz” Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother’s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn’t Jazz’s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother’s do-gooder endeavors. What’s more, Jazz is heartsick. She’s leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, started—as well as Steve himself. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. Only when Jazz befriends Danita, a girl from the orphanage who cooks for her family and faces a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a difference—to her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, and even to Steve. As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and magic.

Author : Jasti S. Chowdary,Anant Parekh,C. Gnanaseelan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128224328

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Indian Summer Monsoon Variability by Jasti S. Chowdary,Anant Parekh,C. Gnanaseelan Pdf

Indian Summer Monsoon Variability: El Niño-Teleconnections and Beyond presents the improved understanding of Indian Monsoon teleconnections (ENSO and Non-ENSO), new advances, and preferred future steps. Special emphasis is given to non-ENSO teleconnections which have been poorly understood for decades. With growing monsoon rainfall extremes across the Indian Subcontinent, a new understanding of monsoon environmental factors that are driven remotely through teleconnections is a trending topic. Finally, the book reviews current understanding ofthe observational and modeling aspects of Indian monsoon teleconnections. This is a must-read for researchers and graduate students in atmospheric science and meteorology. Presents teleconnections associated with the Indian summer monsoon from a global perspective Discusses new pathways that connect the remote drivers to Indian summer monsoon variability Covers a wide range of mechanisms, processes, and science questions in relation to monsoon variability from interannual, decadal to climate change time scales

Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997209

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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai Pdf

Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name. Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion. The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school’s production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.

Author : Yunyun Liu,Ping Liang,Ying Sun
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128165317

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The Asian Summer Monsoon by Yunyun Liu,Ping Liang,Ying Sun Pdf

The Asian Summer Monsoon: Characteristics, Variability, Teleconnections and Projection focuses on the connections between the Indian Summer and East Asian Summer Monsoons, also including the South China Sea Summer Monsoon. While these systems have profound differences, their interactions have significant impacts on the climatic regimes in the region and throughout the world. In summer, the ASM engine pumps moisture transported across thousands of miles from the Indian and Pacific Oceans to the monsoon regions, producing heavy rains over south and east Asia and its adjacent marginal seas. This book reviews the different subsystems and their impact, providing guidance to enhance prediction models. Synthesizes the connections between the East Asian Summer Monsoon, the Indian Summer Monsoon and the Asian Summer Monsoon system Includes subsections on holistic characteristics, sub-seasonal and interannual variability, teleconnection patterns, and projections of future change Connects current theory and practice on Asian Monsoon forecasting, providing researchers with new skills and information to use in climate and weather forecasting

Author : Bin Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 3540406107

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The Asian Monsoon by Bin Wang Pdf

This is a timely, interdisciplinary scientific overview of the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface as it interacts with physical, chemical and biological processes. The high level of detail sets it apart from other studies of monsoon meteorology. The text includes analysis of paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the economic impacts of the monsoon on economies and to human health.

Author : Julia Gregson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439117804

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East of the Sun by Julia Gregson Pdf

From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”—the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun takes us back to a world we hardly understand but yearn to know. This is a book that has it all: glorious detail, fascinating characters, and masterful storytelling.

Author : James Lighthill,R. P. Pearce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521224977

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Monsoon Dynamics by James Lighthill,R. P. Pearce Pdf

This volume presents a survey of our state of knowledge of the physical and dynamical processes involved in the Asian monsoon. Although traditionally the main emphasis has been on the study of the atmospheric component, it has long been known that the oceans play a vitally important part in determining the occurrence of this spectacular seasonal event. A scientific study of this phenomenon involves a detailed investigation of the dynamical processes which occur in both the atmosphere and the ocean, on timescales on up to at least a year and on spatial scales from a few hundred kilometres or so up to that of the global atmospheric and oceanic circulations. The editors present a coherent survey of each of the meteorological, oceanographic and hydrological aspects and of their implications for weather forecasting and flood prediction. Monsoon Dynamics is a timely survey of a dramatic meteorological phenomenon which will interest meteorologists, climatologists and geophysicists.

Author : Bin Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540377221

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The Asian Monsoon by Bin Wang Pdf

This is a timely, interdisciplinary scientific overview of the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface as it interacts with physical, chemical and biological processes. The high level of detail sets it apart from other studies of monsoon meteorology. The text includes analysis of paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the economic impacts of the monsoon on economies and to human health.

Author : Julia Gregson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501139765

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Monsoon Summer by Julia Gregson Pdf

Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor finishing his medical training at Oxford. But Kit's light skinned mother is in fact Anglo-Indian with secrets of her own, and Anto is everything she does not want for her daughter. Despite the threat of estrangement, Kit is excited for the future, hungry for adventure, and deeply in love. She and Anto secretly marry and set off for South India where Kit plans to run the maternity hospital she's helped from afar. But Kit's life in India does not turn out as she imagined. Anto's large, traditional family wanted him to marry an Indian bride and find it hard to accept Kit. Their relationship under immense strain, Kit's job is also fraught with tension as they both face a newly independent India, where riots have left millions dead and there is deep-rooted suspicion of the English. In a rapidly changing world, Kit's naivete is to land her in a frightening and dangerous situation.

Author : Chih-pei Chang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814483131

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East Asian Monsoon by Chih-pei Chang Pdf

The East Asian summer monsoon has complex space and time structures that are distinct from the South Asian summer monsoon. It covers both subtropics and midlatitudes and its rainfall tends to be concentrated in rain belts that stretch for many thousands of kilometers and affect China, Japan, Korea, and the surrounding areas. The circulation of the East Asian winter monsoon encompasses a large meridional domain with cold air outbreaks emanating from the Siberian high and penetrates deeply into the equatorial Maritime Continent region, where the center of maximum rainfall has long been recognized as a major planetary scale heat source that provides a significant amount of energy which drives the global circulation during boreal winter.The East Asian summer monsoon is also closely linked with the West Pacific summer monsoon. Both are part of the global climate system and are affected by El Nino—Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and surface temperature variations in the western Pacific and surrounding oceans, the tropospheric biennial oscillation, and the South Asian summer monsoon. In addition, typhoons in the western North Pacific are most active during the East Asian summer monsoon. They may be considered as a component of the East Asian summer monsoon as they contribute substantial amounts of rainfall and have major impacts on the region.Because of its impacts on nearly one-third of the world's population and on the global climate system (including effects on the climate change), the study of the East Asian monsoon has received increased attention both in East Asian countries and in the United States. This book presents reviews of recent research on the subject.

Author : Chih-Pei Chang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814343404

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The Global Monsoon System by Chih-Pei Chang Pdf

This book presents a current review of the science of monsoon research and forecasting. The contents are based on the invited reviews presented at the World Meteorological Organization's Fourth International Workshop on Monsoons in late 2008, with subsequent manuscripts revised from 2009 to early 2010. The book builds on the concept that the monsoons in various parts of the globe can be viewed as components of an integrated global monsoon system, while emphasizing that significant region-specific characteristics are present in individual monsoon regions. The topics covered include all major monsoon regions and time scales (mesoscale, synoptic, intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and climate change). It is intended to provide an updated comprehensive review of the current status of knowledge, modeling capability, and future directions in the research of monsoon systems around the world.

Author : Lin Wang,Haishan Chen,Jasti S. Chowdary,Kyung-Ja Ha,Yoshiyuki Kajikawa,Gill Martin
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714728

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The Asian Monsoon by Lin Wang,Haishan Chen,Jasti S. Chowdary,Kyung-Ja Ha,Yoshiyuki Kajikawa,Gill Martin Pdf

Author : Chih-pei Chang,Kyung-jia Ha,Richard H Johnson,Daehyun Kim,Gabriel Ngar-cheung Lau,Bin Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811216619

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The Multiscale Global Monsoon System by Chih-pei Chang,Kyung-jia Ha,Richard H Johnson,Daehyun Kim,Gabriel Ngar-cheung Lau,Bin Wang Pdf

The Multiscale Global Monsoon System is the 4th and most up-to-date edition of the global monsoon book series produced by a group of leading international experts invited by the World Meteorological Organization's Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research. The contents reflect the state of the knowledge of all scales of monsoon in the world's monsoon regions. It includes 31 chapters in five parts: Regional Monsoons, Extreme Weather, Intraseasonal Variations, Climate Change, and Field Experiments.

Author : Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466896703

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Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami Pdf

"An expressive story about seasons, extremes, and waiting." - Kirkus Reviews Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.

Author : Peter D. Clift,Ryūji Tada,Hongbo Zheng
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1862393109

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Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics by Peter D. Clift,Ryūji Tada,Hongbo Zheng Pdf

The Earth's climate varies through geological time as a result of external, orbital processes, as well as the positions of continents, growth of mountains and the opening and closure of oceanic gateways. Climate modelling suggests that the intensity of the Asian monsoon should correlate, at least in part, with the uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya, as well as the evolution of gateways and the retreat of shallow seas in Central Asia. Long-term reconstructions of both mountain building and monsoon activity are key to testing the proposed links. This collection of papers presents a series of new studies documenting the variations of the Asian monsoon on orbital and tectonic timescales, together with the impact this has had on environmental conditions. The issue of which proxies are best suited to measuring monsoons is addressed, as is the effect that the monsoon has had on erosion and the formation of the stratigraphic record both on and offshore.