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Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated regional climate shift

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Title Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated regional climate shift
 
Creator Prasanna Kumar, S
Roshin, P Raj
Narvekar, Jayu
Dinesh Kumar, P K
Vivekanandan, E
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description The response of the Arabian Sea to global warming is the disruption in the natural decadal cycle in the sea surface temperature (SST) after 1995, followed by a secular warming. The Arabian Sea is experiencing a regional climate-shift after 1995, which is accompanied by a five fold increase in the occurrence of “most intense cyclones”. Signatures of this climate-shift are also perceptible over the adjacent landmass of India as: (1) progressively warmer winters, and (2) decreased decadal monsoon rainfall. The warmer winters are associated with a 16-fold decrease in the decadal wheat production after 1995, while the decreased decadal rainfall was accompanied by a decline of vegetation cover and increased occurrence of heat spells. We propose that in addition to the oceanic thermal inertia, the upwelling-driven cooling provided a mechanism that offset the CO2-driven SST increase in the Arabian Sea until 1995.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2009
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5756/1/11.pdf
Prasanna Kumar, S and Roshin, P Raj and Narvekar, Jayu and Dinesh Kumar, P K and Vivekanandan, E (2009) Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated regional climate shift. Marine Environmental Research, 68 (5). pp. 217-222.