Assessment of climate change over the Indian Region : A report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India

Assessment of climate change over the Indian Region : A report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India

Author
R. Krishnan, J. Sanjay, Chellappan Gnanaseelan, Milind Mujumdar, …
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Environmental Science

Discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the Indian subcontinent and regional monsoon, the adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It also examines the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used by the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and national climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets


Keywords: Earth and environmental science / Earth System Sciences / Climate Change / Impacts / Climate Change Management and Policy / Climatology / Climate Change / Indian Subcontinent / Indian Ocean / Himalayas / Monsoon / Temperature Changes / Atmospheric Trace Gases / Droughts and Floods/Himalayan Cryosphere