Rainfall Activity over South India, Himalayan Foothills to Intensify in Coming Years: IIT Kharagpur Study | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel
The rainfall pattern over southern India and the foothills of the Himalayas is expected to change and intensify drastically in the years to come, a study conducted by IIT Kharagpur has revealed. These changes will largely occur due to the shifts in monsoon’s spatio-temporal patterns (trends relating to space and time).
In the study, researchers from IIT Kharagpur found that the pattern of monsoon and daily extreme rainfall is changing in India, and more extreme rainfall events are now expected over the South Indian states as well as the Himalayan foothills. In fact, they have predicted a continued southward shift of precipitation extremes over South Asia.
The research team studied the data of monsoon precipitation over India for close to five decades, from 1971 to 2017, and observed that there was a higher increase in the magnitude…
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