Recent trends in pre-monsoon daily temperature extremes over India |
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| Authors: | D R Kothawale J V Revadekar K Rupa Kumar |
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| Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008 Nanjing, China;(2) Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China;(3) Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;(4) Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China;(5) Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China |
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| Abstract: | Extreme climate and weather events are increasingly being recognized as key aspects of climate change. Pre-monsoon season
(March–May) is the hottest part of the year over almost the entire South Asian region, in which hot weather extremes including
heat waves are recurring natural hazards having serious societal impacts, particularly on human health. In the present paper,
recent trends in extreme temperature events for the pre-monsoon season have been studied using daily data on maximum and minimum
temperatures over a well-distributed network of 121 stations for the period 1970–2005. For this purpose, time series of extreme
temperature events have been constructed for India as a whole and seven homogeneous regions, viz., Western Himalaya (WH),
Northwest (NW), Northeast (NE), North Central (NC), East coast (EC), West coast (WC) and Interior Peninsula (IP). |
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