Question

Write the effect of jet streams on India?
5 to 6 points...​

Answer 1

Answer:9

Explanation:

1. The Sub-Tropical Jet stream plays a significant role in both hindering the monsoon winds as well as in quick onset of  Indian monsoons.
2. During winter season the upper air westerly jet streams are positioned in Asia. These are bifurcated in two branches due to Tibet Himalayan obstruction.
3. North branch blows north of Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Southern branch blows south of the mighty mountains.
4. During summer season as sun falls vertically over the Tropic of Cancer the polar surface high pressure is weakened and upper air circum polar whirl shift northward as a result of which the upper air westerly jet are also withdrawn from southern slopes of the Himalayas.
5. The removal of jet stream to north of the Tibetan plateau results in reversal of the curvature of How of free air to the north and north-west of the subcontinent. This event may well be the trigger that sets off the ‘burst’ of the monsoon.
6. Origin of the Easterly Jet Stream because of the Plateau of Tibet becoming Hot in summer.