Global monsoon domains. The global land-monsoon area is highly negatively correlated with monsoon precipitation intensity, with a correlation coefficient of -0.87. The results also show that continental area—particularly tropical continental area—determines land-monsoon area, while continent fragmentation determines land-monsoon precipitation intensity. "The modern global land monsoon did not directly originate from the Pangea megamonsoon but emerged after the reassembly of fragmented continents in the Cenozoic." More information: Yongyun Hu et al, Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangaea megamonsoon set by palaeogeography, Nature Geoscience (2023).

Source: The Nation October 25, 2023 17:17 UTC