Tibet Plain, creator of the monsoons

2001/05/04 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Klima

Today, the monsoon presiding over the Asian climate directs the plains surrounding the Himalayan mountains. In summer, the Tibetan plain is a semi-open oven to the atmosphere. The warm air over the plain is mixed with the wet wind entering the Indian Ocean. Thus arise the monsoon summer rains. In winter it happens upside down; the plain behaves like a large piece of ice, cools the air above and quickly moves it down to the Indian Ocean.

Prior to the formation of the plain, the Asian climate did not present such fluctuations. Probably in the south it was warm and humid and gradually towards the north it became colder and drier.