That's the inter monsoon, the time when the monsoon changes.

Now, monsoon, the root of the word monsoon comes from the word season.

But in October, remember, we're still in southwest monsoon, Maldives is still in the southwest monsoon.

This is a summer monsoon.

This is the monsoon season.

That's what brings the monsoon rain.

How will monsoon patterns be affected?

I can be in the southwest monsoon.

The Calypso suffers bad weather. Monsoon is.

Monsoon belly out to enter the doldrums.

Then the front moves into the northeast monsoon.

But the wind above is from the northeast monsoon.

This is getting ready for the monsoon in Bombay, India.

So it comes from the southwest. It's a southwest monsoon.

October, November, December. That is not the northeast monsoon season.

Now, what I said was, you get the southwest monsoon going one way, and then it changes and you get the northeast monsoon going the other way.

It can also harvest something like 25,000 in a good monsoon.

And we're starting in June. So this is the monsoon rain.

What's happening is they are breeding in the monsoon rains here.

It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm.

Okay, they lay their eggs where the seasonal rains are, the monsoon rains.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

So, if you've got India here, when the front is up above India you're into the southwest monsoon.

And they fly south. As the monsoon withdraws to the south they come down through Karnataka, into Kerala.

And in India, the rain bearing, life giving monsoon tends to become irregular, making food production less reliable.

(c) During the northern summer season, the Indian monsoon rainfall tends to be less than normal, especially in the north west

Now, if we have evidence, which we now have, that wetlands, forests, unclear monsoon system, the rainforests, behave in this nonlinear way.

Bangladesh was often subjected to floods during the monsoon season, and the densely populated coastal areas often had to bear the brunt of cyclones.

So, the dragonflies are actually coming from India on the northeast monsoon, but at an altitude at 1,000 to 2,000 meters up in the air. Incredible.

In Sri Lanka, if you go down to the south coast of Sri Lanka, during the northeast monsoon season, you can see blue whales very, very easily.

Letters from Indian soldiers in Europe to their families back home bespeak cultural dislocation and tragedy. The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon, declared one.

The Subcommittee also noted the progress made in India in the field of climate modelling, monsoon dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and radiation, and land, air and ocean interaction.

But then the monsoon arrives, and unfortunately downriver there is always a dam or there is always a barrage, and, shoop, they get washed down to their doom.

Now, when I talk about the northeast monsoon season, I'm sure many of you here know exactly what I mean, but perhaps some of you are not quite so sure.

The FAS also prepared detailed analyses of the performance of India apos s summer monsoon, frost damage to Brazil apos s coffee crop, and drought in Australia apos s eastern wheat regions.

Complicating matters further are geographical and climactic disparities among constituencies. The Himalayan highlands, for example, will remain snowbound until May, by which time monsoon rains will have begun to sweep southern and northeastern India.

We can see the calcium from the world's deserts, soot from distant wildfires, methane as an indicator of the strength of a Pacific monsoon, all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote and very cold place.

India has suffered, like most developing countries, from declining foreign investment, poor export performance, and a depreciating currency. But even pessimistic estimates project 5 growth in the coming fiscal year, and a good monsoon should ensure a bumper harvest.

2 For instance, the INDOEX field experiment (http www.indoex.ucsd.edu ) led to the discovery of a massive pollution cloud extending over the Indian Ocean, South and South East Asia and China, with serious potential impacts on marine life, agricultural productivity, and climate and monsoon hydrological cycles.

Rising interest rates, high inflation, and severe policy gridlock amid a spate of government corruption scandals have impeded both foreign and domestic investment in India, thus slowing economic growth to a level that is below its potential. An unpredictable regulatory environment, inadequate infrastructure, and a sluggish, monsoon dependent agricultural sector are adding to the economy s problems.

Am examination of changma moisture fields, corresponding to the variation and structure of the east Asian monsoon and subtropic high, is urgently needed for predicting changma characteristics (intensity, duration, onset and offset times etc.) because changmas are the source of water over the peninsula of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People s Republic of Korea.