Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Roxy, Mathew Koll ^a   Ritika, Kapoor ^a,b   Terray, Pascal ^c,d   Murtugudde, Raghu ^e   Ashok, Karumuri ^a,f   Goswami, B N ^a,g  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b FERGUSSON COLLEGE   (India)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MOISTURE FLUX; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; INDIAN OCEAN; LAND BIOME; SEA; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SOUTH ASIA; SUMMER; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WARMING;

INDIA;

EID: 84935844775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8423     Document Type: Article

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