The local and global climate forcings induced inhomogeneity of Indian rainfall.

ABSTRACT: India is home for more than a billion people and its economy is largely based on agrarian society. Therefore, rainfall received not only decides its livelihood, but also influences its water security and economy. This situation warrants continuous surveillance and analysis of Indian rainfall. These kinds of studies would also help forecasters to better tune their models for accurate weather prediction. Here, we introduce a new method for estimating variability and trends in rainfall over different climate regions of India. The method based on multiple linear regression helps to assess contributions of different remote and local climate forcings to seasonal and regional inhomogeneity in rainfall. We show that the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) variability is governed by Eastern and C

SUBMITTER: Nair PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902448 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature