INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: Future climate change will cause an uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt -- a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the
Earth's equator -- leading to increased flooding in parts of India, a new study warns.The study, published in the journal Nature Climate
Change, examined computer simulations from 27 state-of-the-art climate models, and measured the tropical rain belt's response to a future
shift of the tropical rain belt over the eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean could result in "intensified flooding in southern India," and
may impact global biodiversity and food security by 2100.The scientists, including those from the University of California (UC) Irvine in
the US, said this "sweeping shift" of the rain belt was disguised in previous studies that provided a global average of the influence of
climate change.However, they said climate change caused the atmosphere to heat up by different amounts over Asia and the North Atlantic
and Western Hemisphere zones."In Asia, projected reductions in aerosol emissions, glacier melting in the Himalayas and loss of snow cover in
northern areas brought on by climate change will cause the atmosphere to heat up faster than in other regions," said study co-author James
Randerson from UC Irvine."We know that the rain belt shifts toward this heating, and that its northward movement in the Eastern Hemisphere
engineering approach of system's thinking with data analytics and climate science to reveal subtle manifestations of global warming on
regional rainfall extremes."The complexity of the Earth system is daunting, with dependencies and feedback loops across many processes and
scales," said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, another co-author of the study from UCI.Click on Deccan Chronicle Technology and Science for the latest
