{"id":27843,"date":"2011-01-12T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=27843"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:38:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:38:50","slug":"climate-change-likely-to-affect-monsoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/01\/climate-change-likely-to-affect-monsoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Likely to Affect Monsoons"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"<p>Study<\/a>
Anji Seth, assistant professor of geography. Photo by Daniel Buttrey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monsoon areas of the world may experience wetter, later monsoon seasons following longer periods of drier weather, all due to global climate change, according to a new study led by Anji Seth, assistant professor of geography<\/a> in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and colleagues at other universities.<\/p>\n

Once the wet season arrives, it is likely to rain more, but it may take longer for the rains to get started, she says.<\/p>\n

The longer, drier transition period and the wetter monsoon season would have implications for agriculture, as the dry season and higher temperatures deplete moisture and a shorter monsoon season brings more rainfall in less time.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanges tend to pose challenges,\u201d Seth says, noting that the monsoon regions are also major agricultural regions.<\/p>\n

In the Southern Hemisphere, monsoon rains generally begin in October and peak from December through February. In the Northern Hemisphere, they usually occur from June to September.<\/p>\n

Results of the study were published Nov. 10 in Climatic Change Letters<\/em><\/a> and were featured in the Nov. 30 Research Highlights section of the online journal Nature Climate Change<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study was conducted with colleagues of Seth\u2019s at the Los Alamos National Lab, the University of Chile, and Columbia University.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would consider this an early result,\u201d Seth says, adding that more research is needed to understand the mechanism of what is happening and the plausibility of the results.<\/p>\n

The researchers examined climate model data for the last 30 years to show the present-day climate and projections for 30 years at the end of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

They used a data set with 24 global climate models projecting what would happen assuming higher CO2 emissions, which gave them a clearer picture of changes. That scenario also reflects what will happen unless emissions are controlled.<\/p>\n

A recent analysis showed that current C02 emissions are actually higher than the highest CO2 scenario in the models, she says, \u201cso it\u2019s not an unreasonable thing to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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