Abrupt changes in mean temperature over India during 1901–2010

Since eternity, the Earth’s temperature has varied or fluctuated; it has its cooling and hot timing dependency on its orbital position as well as the isolation received from the Sun. The global climate continues to change rapidly compared to the speed of the natural variations in climate. Therefore,...

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Published in:Journal of Earth System Science 2020-12, Vol.129 (1), p.166, Article 166
Main Authors: Bhatla, R, Verma, Shruti, Ghosh, Soumik, Gupta, Ankita
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerosols
Climate
Climate change
Climate variations
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Fossil fuels
Gases
Global climate
Global warming
Global warming effects
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Industrialization
Mean temperatures
Monsoons
Seasons
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
Surface temperature
Temperature
Time series
Urbanization
Wind
Winter
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Summary:Since eternity, the Earth’s temperature has varied or fluctuated; it has its cooling and hot timing dependency on its orbital position as well as the isolation received from the Sun. The global climate continues to change rapidly compared to the speed of the natural variations in climate. Therefore, the spatially complete representations of surface climate are required for many purposes in applied sciences. But in recent centuries, the main matter of concern is that Earth’s normal temperature fluctuation is being influenced by some external factors such as enhanced greenhouse gases because of extreme uses of fossil fuels, severe industrialization, advance urbanization, etc. This study presents a comprehensive surface temperature dataset of Climatic Research Unit (CRU) available since 1901 for India, which is used to document significant changes in Indian temperature over ten decades, during winter season (January and February), pre-monsoon (March–May), monsoon (June–September) and post-monsoon (October–December) to examine the patterns and possible effects of global warming. A strong increasing pattern is observed with the fast growing of the development after 1950 which has shown nearly doubled in the last 50 yrs. The mean temperature during winter for the 2000s shows a consistent pattern of warming over the Himalayan region, northwestern and southern India, and a pattern of the warming observed over northeastern India and extending southwestward across central India during post-monsoon.
ISSN:2347-4327
0253-4126
0973-774X
DOI:10.1007/s12040-020-01421-0