Enhanced summer monsoon precipitation in West Africa; increased Degree short Duration rain in East Africa Location due to the pattern of Indian Ocean warming Cause ; [ WG1AR5AQ 0 MCLH 24/03/2014 ]

Furthermore, the surface cooling effect is typically not uniform: because continents cool more than the ocean, the summer monsoon can weaken, reducing rain over Asia and Africa Location . [ WG1AR5MM 0 MCLH 24/03/2014 ]

Confidence is low in projections of a small delay in the onset of the West African rainy season with an intensification of late- season Time rains. [ WG1AR5OV 0 MCLH 24/03/2014 ]

The summer Time rain band is anchored by the subtropical westerly jet (Sampe and Xie, 2010), and located on the northwestern flank of the western North Pacific subtropical high (Zhou and Yu, 2005). [ WG1AR5OZ 0 MCLH 24/03/2014 ]

Indeed, the Mediterranean Location winter Time rains rarely cross the Atlas Mountains, and the monsoon rains do not extend farther north than 170 N (the latitude of Timbuktu in Mali, and Khartoum in the Sudan), which mark the limits of present-day Sahara. [ JACLET 0 SB MCLH 24/03/2014 ]

Freezing Material rain occurs when warm, moist air that is above the freezing point overlies cold air at ground level that is below the freezing point. [ 2CANADACCD9801 0 SB MCLH 24/03/2014 ]