What are noctillucent clouds?
What are local winds? Give examples.
What places did cyclone title hit in 2018?
Who were bhuiyans?
Define paik system?
What is called shifiting cultivation?
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Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are called Polar mesospheric clouds, detectable as a diffuse scattering layer of water ice crystals near the summer polar mesopause.
A local wind is a flow of air that tends to happen in a predictable way in a particular, local area. . Examples of local winds include sea breezes, which blow from the sea to the land and keep coastal temperatures more mild, and land breezes, which blow from the land toward the sea, usually at night.
The storm steadily weakened and made landfall at Katrenikona on December 17, with 3-minute sustained winds of 50 mph. Phethai rapidly weakened as it traversed Andhra Pradesh, and finally dissipated over a tropical rainforest south west of Kolkata.
Total damage: $4.32 billion (2018 USD)
Last system dissipated: December 17, 2018
Bhuiyan was a title used to refer to a landlord or chieftain. It originates from the Sanskrit word, Bhumi, meaning 'land'.
The Paik system was a type of corvee labour system on which the economy of the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam depended.
Swidden agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, refers to a technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation (normally by fire) and then left to regenerate after a few years. ... This type of “slash and burn” is better referred to as “swidden agriculture” or “shifting cultivation".