Modeling seasonal trends in optimum temperatures over India

Abstract

Global warming and changes in seasonal temperature can severely affect general circulation and precipitation distribution of a region. Therefore, it becomes essential to analyze seasonal trends in air temperature with changing climate. The present study evaluates the troposphere temperature extremes over India during different seasons. We intend to identify significant trends in temperature distribution in different regions of India using the Mann–Kendall test. Further, we have calculated indices concerning temperature extremes to infer about the nature of this monotonicity at four pressure levels on seasonal and annual basis. The temperature data being used in our analysis is obtained from the output of a Regional Climate Model version 4.6 (RegCM v4.6). The monthly temperature values are taken for 25 years (1982–2006) from the model output. We observed that the model captured temperature climatology is coherent with our theoretical analysis. Results of our study reveal a significant (p < 0.05) trend in TT during all the seasons in major parts of the country in lower troposphere. The upper troposphere, on the other hand, does not show any significant trend during most of the seasons. The identification of these changes can be useful for analysis of coastal vulnerability and extreme weather conditions.

Effect of Sampietrini Pavers on Urban Heat Islands

“…In the last few years, the effects of current global warming (e.g., rise of mean surface temperature, heating of the oceans and mass loss from glaciers and ice caps), climatic variability, and extremes of weather phenomena, have been increasing [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Human activities are one of the main causes that contribute to extreme climate events [ 4 , 5 , 6 ] and extreme heat events (e.g., heat waves) are one of the most serious and harmful [ 7 , 8 ].…”