Alterations to summer
monsoon rainfall affect the lives of billions of people, mostly those living in India, South East Asia and parts of Africa.
Not exact matches
During this time,
rainfall was
affected by the African
monsoon which strengthened and weakened on a 23,000 year cycle driven by the precession of the equinoxes.
A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn
affect regional
rainfall patterns including the Indian
monsoon.
For example, the northern East Asian summer
monsoon (NEASM) is, for the years of highest SST anomalies in the tropical eastern Pacific (TEP),
affected by the Pacific - East Asian (PEA) teleconnection pattern, which consists of a wave creating an anomalously strong western North Pacific (WNP) anticyclonic circulation and anomalously strong cyclonic circulation in the NEASM region, creating more
monsoon rainfall.
Unchecked deforestation will have far - reaching impacts on temperature,
rainfall, and
monsoon cycles in regions well outside the tropics,
affecting agriculture and water availability, warns a new report published by Greenpeace...