| Title |
Weakening of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall due to Changes in Land Use Land Cover
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Scientific Reports, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep32177 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Supantha Paul, Subimal Ghosh, Robert Oglesby, Amey Pathak, Anita Chandrasekharan, RAAJ Ramsankaran |
| Abstract |
Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is traditionally linked with large-scale perturbations and circulations. However, the impacts of local changes in land use and land cover (LULC) on ISMR have yet to be explored. Here, we analyzed this topic using the regional Weather Research and Forecasting model with European Center for Medium range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) reanalysis data for the years 2000-2010 as a boundary condition and with LULC data from 1987 and 2005. The differences in LULC between 1987 and 2005 showed deforestation with conversion of forest land to crop land, though the magnitude of such conversion is uncertain because of the coarse resolution of satellite images and use of differential sources and methods for data extraction. We performed a sensitivity analysis to understand the impacts of large-scale deforestation in India on monsoon precipitation and found such impacts are similar to the observed changes in terms of spatial patterns and magnitude. We found that deforestation results in weakening of the ISMR because of the decrease in evapotranspiration and subsequent decrease in the recycled component of precipitation. |
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| India | 13 | 28% |
| Canada | 3 | 6% |
| Sweden | 2 | 4% |
| Australia | 2 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Thailand | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 21 | 45% |
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| Members of the public | 36 | 77% |
| Scientists | 7 | 15% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 313 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 96 | 31% |
| Researcher | 44 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 18 | 6% |
| Other | 36 | 11% |
| Unknown | 65 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 94 | 30% |
| Engineering | 52 | 17% |
| Environmental Science | 41 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 4% |
| Unknown | 87 | 28% |
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