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The Indian Summer Monsoon:Past, Present and Future
with special thanks to Andy Turner, Nick Klingaman and Hilary Weller
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Outline• What the monsoon means for the people
of India
• Basic science of the monsoon
• History of the UK’s interest in the Indian monsoon
• Monsoon weather
• Challenges of climate change for India
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Some basic facts• 1.13 billion people - one-sixth of the world's population -
live in a country one-third the size of the U.S. Over 37% live below the poverty line.
• Population projected to rise to 1.8 billion by 2050.• World’s eleventh largest economy and second most
rapidly growing economy with GDP growth rate last year of 6.7%.
• Sustained by annual rainfall of around 1100mm, 80% of which arrives in the summer.
• Agriculture accounts for nearly 20% of the GDP and employs over 50% of the total workforce.
• 60% of agricultural production is rainfed and hence vulnerable.
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• ‘Monsoon’ means ‘season’, and describes a complete reversal of wind regimes during the seasonal cycle. Monsoons are characterised by a pronounced rainy season.
• Monsoons are driven by changes in the distribution of heating driven primarily by the seasonal cycle of the sun. A thermal contrast between land and sea is required to set up a monsoon.
• In winter, the wind blows from the cold land over the warm sea. In summer, the warm land pulls in the wind from the ocean like a massive sea breeze.
• Once established, the positive feedback between the circulation and latent heat release in the rain clouds maintains the monsoon
What are Monsoons?
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Winds near the surface (925hPa)
Winter
SummerAsian Monsoon
Indian Monsoon is part of a much larger circulation, the Asian Monsoon
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Pre-Monsoon Land/Sea Temperature contrasts
Nov./Dec.
May/June
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Rainfall (mm/day)
Winter
Summer
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Mountains and Monsoons
• Tibetan Plateau and the Asian Summer Monsoon• East African Highlands and the Indian Summer Monsoon• Andes and the South American Monsoon• Sierra Madre and the North American Monsoon
Topography (metres)
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Mean Temperature in the Upper Troposphere (500 –200mb)
Summer
Winter
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Indian Monsoon Onset
Seasonal evolution of North-South gradient in 200-500hPa temperature
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Climatological Onset Dates
Monsoon sweeps north and west
1 June
15 July
5 June
10 June
1 June
15 June
1 July
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Snow-monsoon interactions
~2week delay to monsoon onset in heavy Himalayan snow case
Model Sensitivity Study: No Snow versus Heavy Snow
No SnowHeavy Snow
Turner & Slingo 2010
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East African Highlands, Somali Jet and Indian Summer Monsoon
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Impact of E. African Highlands on Asian Summer Monsoon
JJA: W/out Highlands JJA: With Highlands JJA: Impact of Highlands
JJA: W/out Highlands JJA: With Highlands JJA: Impact of Highlands
850 hPa winds
Rainfall
Slingo et al 2004
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Long-Term Stability of the Indian Summer Monsoon
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UK’s fascination with the meteorology of India
• India was Britain’s most important imperial and economic possession. By the late 1860s India absorbed 1/5th of all British exports, so its economic importance was profound.
• India appeared to offer an ideal natural laboratory for the science, and an ideal space in which to demonstrate the political importance of science in a global age.
Reference: Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorologyby Katharine Anderson
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Henry Francis Blanford1st British Director (Imperial Meteorological Reporter) of the
Indian Meteorological Department (1875-1889)
‘Order and regularity are as prominent characteristics of
our (India’s) atmospheric phenomena, as are caprice
and uncertainty those of their European counterparts.’
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India holds the key to unraveling the laws of the atmosphere!
Blanford argued that India offered a special situation for the study of meteorology:
‘We are in the position of a commander who can find no eminence from which he may gain a bird’s eye view of the
combat.
Could we but find some isolated tract of mountain, plain and ocean … girdled round by a giant mountain chain that should
completely shut in and isolate some millions of square miles of the atmosphere, resting on a surface vast and varied enough to
exhibit within itself all those contrasts of desert and forest, of plain, plateau and mountain ridge, of continent and sea, then
the progress of meteorology would be assured.’
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From ‘The Indian Charivari’ – India’s equivalent of ‘Punch’: July 23, 1875
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Long-Term Stability of the Indian Summer Monsoon
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"Disputed Empire“: Cartoon from Punch, 1877
Great Famine of 1877/78:
Conjunction of Politics and Science
The Indian economy was single-mindedly focused on its grain
harvests.
Indian taxes to administer the country and pay dividends to its investors depended entirely on
the monsoon rains.
Control of famine through climate prediction would mean that India could be governed
more effectively.
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Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker 3rd British Director (Director General of Observatories) of the
Indian Meteorological Department (1904-1924)
Pioneered statistical forecasting - formed a ’human computer’ with Indian staff
performing a mass of statistical correlations using data from around the
world
‘I think that the relationships of world weather are so complex that our only
chance of explaining them is to accumulate the facts empirically.’
Introduced the terms Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and North
Pacific Oscillation
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El Nino, Southern Oscillation and the Walker Circulation
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Decadal Variations in Indian Monsoon and El Nino
Seasonal mean
InterannualVariability
ENSO-Monsoon Teleconnections
Updated from Slingo (1999)
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Possible Players in Monsoon Variability(+++ Level of confidence/knowledge)
• El Nino/Southern Oscillation (+++)
• Eurasian and Himalayan snow amounts (+)
• Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures and heat content (+)
• Intra-seasonal variability e.g. active/break cycles (++)
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2001 2002
2003 2004 2005
Diversity of All-India Daily Rainfall
What weather patterns are linked to daily rainfall variability?
How predictable are they and on what lead times?
How do they influence seasonal mean rainfall?
What will happen under global warming?
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July 2002: Drought in India
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Active-break cycles of the Indian Summer Monsoon
Northward and eastward propagation associated with the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Courtesy; Peter Webster
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MJO implicated in monsoon 2009
Major failure of monsoon rains: 23% below normal
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Air-sea interaction and the MJO
Courtesy: Pete Inness
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High Frequency Sea Surface Temperatures drive stronger active-break cycles
Klingaman et al. (2008)
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Lag correlations of intra-seasonally (30-50 day) filtered July and August rainfall
The importance of interactive upper-ocean thermodynamics for monsoon active-break cycles
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Mumbai flooding: July 26 2005942 mm (37 inches) of rain in 24 hours
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(A) Number (N) of heavy (R > 100 mm/day, bold line) and moderate (5 < R < 100 mm/day, thin line) daily rain events
(B) Number (N) of very heavy events (R > 150 mm/day) during the summer monsoonseason over Central India.
Changing nature of Indian rainfall (R)
From Goswami et al. 2006, Science
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Indian Summer Monsoon is remarkably stable: High societal vulnerability to small changes.
India is developing rapidly: Will there be enough water to sustain that development?
India and Climate Change
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The Scientific Challenges• How will the mean monsoon behave?• How will climate change affect the stability of
the monsoon?– Will it become more variable?– Will it be less predictable?
• What will climate change mean for extreme events?
• How will changes in atmospheric composition affect the monsoon?
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IPCC 4th Assessment Report: Projections of likely shifts in rainfall patterns by 2080
% change in rainfall by end of 21st century, where more than 2/3 of the models agree on the sign of the change.
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Mean Annual Cycles of All-India Rainfall and Temperature for end of 21st century
Current
A2: High Emissions
B2: Low Emissions
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Changes in rainfall during active and break phasesBreak spellsActive spells
Current
2xCO2
Monsoon breaks may become more severe – impacts on agriculture
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Changing nature of Indian rainfall with climate change:Impact of 2xCO2 on
number of rain days and rainfall intensity
Change in number of wet days
Change in rainfall intensity
• Decrease in number of rain days
• Increase in rain intensity on days when raining
From: Turner & Slingo 2008
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Changes in the intensity of extreme Indian daily rainfall with climate change
1 in 10 1 in 100 1 in 1,000 1 in 10,000
Current
2xCO2
From: Turner & Slingo 2008
X X – Expected Increase from
ClausiusClapeyron
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Turner & Slingo 2010
But not all models agree with this simple hypothesis…….
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Impact of aerosols on the monsoon
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Pre-monsoon build up of absorbing aerosol from Arabian and Saharan dust, Thar dust and local black carbon sources.
Aerosol is not all washed out during monsoon: gaps in rainfall allow burden tobuild up. Lau et al., GEWEX News 18, #1
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Concluding Remarks
• Much still to learn about what controls the monsoon and its variability
• Model improvements are vital for making progress in monsoon prediction
• Impacts of climate change remain hugely uncertain for those reasons
• 2010: Normal (98%) predicted by Indian Meteorological Department
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Tropical Cyclone Gonu:4 June 2007