Severe cyclones can be physically connected by a monsoonal trough.
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Severe tropical cyclones frequently form and interact along the shared background state of an extended monsoonal trough, which provides the necessary dynamic and thermodynamic conditions for multiple cyclone events.
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Role of Tropical Cyclones along the Monsoon Trough in the 2011 Thai Flood and Interannual Variability
2015 · cited by 52
The study observes multiple westward-propagating tropical cyclones spanning across the monsoon trough from the Indian subcontinent through the Bay of Bengal to the western North Pacific.
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Monsoon trough influences on multiple tropical cyclones events in the western North Pacific
2018 · cited by 12
Research demonstrates that an enhanced monsoon trough creates favorable low-level relative vorticity, upward motion, and moist environments that facilitate multiple tropical cyclone (MTC) events.