{"id":835,"date":"2018-07-02T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/?page_id=835"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:40:06","slug":"monsoon-indices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/?page_id=835","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zonal Wind Shear Index<\/strong> (Webster and Yang, 1992)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ds.data.jma.go.jp\/tcc\/tcc\/products\/clisys\/ASIA_TCC\/GIF\/monsoon_index\/U850-U200_2026.png\" alt=\"monsoon index based on zonal wind shear over north Indian Ocean\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ds.data.jma.go.jp\/tcc\/tcc\/products\/clisys\/ASIA_TCC\/GIF\/monsoon_index\/U850-U200_area.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time-series representation of the zonal wind shear index between 200 hPa and 850 hPa averaged over the North Indian Ocean and southern Asia (shown by the rectangle on the bottom: equator &#8211; 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zonal Wind Shear Index (Webster and Yang, 1992) Time-series representation of the zonal wind shear index between 200 hPa and 850 hPa averaged over the North Indian Ocean and southern Asia (shown by the rectangle on the bottom: equator &#8211; 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-835","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/835\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol.tropmet.res.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}