Reversal in Wind Direction during the Southwest Monsoon

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007 report.

This schematic shows the reversal in wind direction during the southwestern monsoon (June to September) resulting from changes in the land-sea pressure gradient. Credit: J.I. Goes, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

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