The East Asian monsoon is a monsoonal flow that carries moist air from South Asia to East Asia. It affects approximately one-third of the global population, and the countries of the China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea. It is driven by temperature differences between the Asian continent and the Pacific Ocean. Monsoon in the Vindhya mountain range, central India A monsoon is a storm whose direction depends on the specific season. ... This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. ... East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

In most years, the monsoonal flow shifts in a very predictable pattern, winds being southwesterly in late June to water the Korean peninsula and Japan. This leads to a reliable precipitation spike in July and August. However, this pattern occasionally fails, leading to drought and crop failure. In the winter, the winds are northeasterly and the monsoonal precipation bands move back to the south, watering southern China and Taiwan. The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. ...

The East Asian monsoon is known as jangma in Korea, and as tsuyu in Japan. Korea (Korean: 한국 or 조선, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ...

There has been some speculation that climate change will disrupt or change the monsoonal pattern. Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ...

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External links

• East Asian monsoon profile
• East Asian Monsoon (book)
• Paper on the 1994 monsoonal failure
• Profile of South Korean climate