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Africa albedo analysis anticyclone Arabian Sea Atmos atmosphere available potential energy baroclinic instability barotropic instability Bay of Bengal boundary conditions Charney circulation models clouds coast computed conversion cooling cross-equatorial cumulus cyclone date of onset diabatic heating divergence drought eddy equatorial Figure flow fluctuations flux forcing forecasts friction geopotential gradient Hadley cell Hadley circulation Himalayas Indian Ocean indicate integration July June Kelvin wave kinetic energy Krishnamurti latent heat lower troposphere mean meridional mid-tropospheric modes moist convection moisture MONEX monsoon circulations monsoon depressions Monsoon Experiment monsoon rain monsoon rainfall monsoon trough monsoon winds motion mountains mousson north-west India northern observed period perturbations potential vorticity predicted pressure propagation radiation region represent Rossby waves sea-level Sensitivity tests Shukla simulated Somali current southern suggest summer monsoon surface time-scale tropical troposphere upper troposphere upwelling variability velocity vertical Walker warming wavelength westerly western wind stress winter monsoon zonal