In the future, there could be a decrease in cloud cover along with an increase in cloud water content, suggesting a shift in the cloud type to more convective clouds resulting in extreme rains. It means the Indian summer monsoon season is expected to have short bursts of convective rains leading to extreme rainfall events but drier conditions for most days.
In the latest study by the University of Hyderabad (UoH) - Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS), researchers have showed that global warming is leading to extreme climates like intensification of heavy rainfall events.
The study - ‘Precipitation Scaling in Extreme Rainfall Events and the Implications for Future Indian Monsoon: Analysis of High-Resolution Global Climate Model Simulations’ covers the topic of extreme rainfall events and their changing dynamics due to climate change at the end of the 21st century and it centres around the sensitivity of very extreme rainfall events to warmer temperatures.
