Unravelling Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Rapid Warming in the Mountains and Increasing Extremes
Raghavan Krishnan,Arun Bhakta Shrestha,Guoyu Ren,Guoyu Ren,Rupak Rajbhandari,Sajjad Saeed,J. Sanjay,Md. Abu Syed,Ramesh Vellore,Ying Xu,Qinglong You,Yuyu Ren +11 more
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In this paper, the authors show well-established evidence that climate drivers of tropical and extra-tropical origin, such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillations (NAO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), the Madden-Julian Oscillator (MJO), and the Arctic OscillATION (ARO) influence the region's weather and climate on multiple spatio-temporal scales.Abstract:
Historically, the climate of the HKH has experienced significant changes that are closely related to the rise and fall of regional cultures and civilizations. Studies show well-established evidence that climate drivers of tropical and extra-tropical origin—such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the Arctic Oscillation—influence the region’s weather and climate on multiple spatio-temporal scales.read more
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