Boston: Indian summer monsoons have strengthened over the past 15 years, reversing a 50-year dry period during which northern and central India received relatively little rainfall, an MIT study has found. Indian summer monsoons bring rainfall to the country each year between June and September. A shift in India’s land and sea temperatures may partially explain this increase in monsoon rainfall, according to the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The Indian monsoon phenomenon is the longest recorded monsoon system in meteorology, researchers said. “The Indian monsoon is considered a textbook, clearly defined phenomenon, and we think we know a lot about it, but we do not,” Wang said.

Source: Mint July 25, 2017 08:37 UTC