TY - JOUR
T1 - The past climate of the Indian region as seen from the modelling world
AU - Tejavath, Charan Teja
AU - Upadhyay, Pankaj
AU - Ashok, Karumuri
N1 - Generated from Scopus record by KAUST IRTS on 2023-09-21
PY - 2020/7/25
Y1 - 2020/7/25
N2 - Proxy-reconstruction studies suggest several waxing and waning epochs of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) since Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ≃21 kyr bp). These fluctuations in the ISM are attributed to several internal and external factors. The few available past climate modelling studies for various epochs also support the results from the reconstruction studies for India. Our results, based on an analysis of five CMIP5-PMIP3 simulations for the periods of LGM, Mid-Holocene (MH; ≃6 kyr bp), last-millennium and historical period (ce 1901–1999) indicate that the ISM rainfall was lowest during the LGM, and strongest during the MH. The simulations, relative to the historical time period, suggest highest low-level convergence over the Indian region during MH and lowest during LGM. These slow changes in large-scale circulation patterns resulted in relatively highest simulated ISM rainfall during the MH, and lowest in the LGM.
AB - Proxy-reconstruction studies suggest several waxing and waning epochs of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) since Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ≃21 kyr bp). These fluctuations in the ISM are attributed to several internal and external factors. The few available past climate modelling studies for various epochs also support the results from the reconstruction studies for India. Our results, based on an analysis of five CMIP5-PMIP3 simulations for the periods of LGM, Mid-Holocene (MH; ≃6 kyr bp), last-millennium and historical period (ce 1901–1999) indicate that the ISM rainfall was lowest during the LGM, and strongest during the MH. The simulations, relative to the historical time period, suggest highest low-level convergence over the Indian region during MH and lowest during LGM. These slow changes in large-scale circulation patterns resulted in relatively highest simulated ISM rainfall during the MH, and lowest in the LGM.
UR - https://wwwops.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/119/02/0316.pdf
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U2 - 10.18520/cs/v119/i2/316-327
DO - 10.18520/cs/v119/i2/316-327
M3 - Article
SN - 0011-3891
VL - 119
SP - 316
EP - 327
JO - Current Science
JF - Current Science
IS - 2
ER -