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The winter monsoon’s characteristics include:

• The area of maximum heating moves south to Indonesia.
• The ITCZ moves south.
• Jet streams go back to their winter locations. One jet stream is split by the high-elevation Tibetan plateau and streams eastward above China.
• Low-pressure cyclones migrate into the Pacific Ocean.

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