megamonsoonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

megamonsoon (plural megamonsoons)

1. An extremely intense and widespread monsoon.
   • 2023 October 25, Li Yuan, “Study reveals transition from Pangea megamonsoon to modern global monsoon”, in Phys.org‎, archived from the original on 2023-11-01:

     First, the supercontinent Pangea led to a broad land-monsoon area (i.e., megamonsoon), but with modest monsoonal precipitation. Later, highly fragmented continents in the Cretaceous caused a much smaller land-monsoon area, but with much heavier monsoon precipitation.

   • 2024 November 28, Jeanne Timmons, “A Fossil Gets Its Name From a Revived Indigenous Language”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-12-01:

     During the period in which it lived approximately 247 to 231 million years ago, it was exposed to devastating equatorial heat and megamonsoons.