December Climate of Southeast Asia.
Abstract
The report deals with the climate of North Vietnam, Republic of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand for December. Essentially based on previously available data, however, precipitation analyses, ceiling/visibility and upper air flow are new. Contains brief notes on the climate of Southeast Asia and the geographical features of the Republic of Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Discusses the precipitation, thunderstorms, cloudiness, visibility and obstructions to vision, combined ceiling/visibility, temperature, relative humidity, surface and upper winds, miscellaneous phenomena and sea operations. Contains a station locator and topography map. Isoline analyses (map scale 1:9,000,000) are given for precipitation days, means, maximum, and minimum precipitation, days with thunderstorm. Also included are charts of mean position of polar front and ICZ (1:17,000,000) typhoon tracks (1:10,000,000), sea surface currents, temperatures, frequency of breakers, sea swell (1:10,000,000). Monthly sunrise, sunset, morning and evening twilight data are presented for Saigon with method for adapting to other stations. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0714070