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Chapter Wrting Method

The document discusses the impacts of climate change including rising temperatures, storms, and sea levels. It provides background on climate change studies in India that have found increasing trends in annual mean, maximum and minimum temperatures. The summary also notes studies on changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in central and south Asia.

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Chapter Wrting Method

The document discusses the impacts of climate change including rising temperatures, storms, and sea levels. It provides background on climate change studies in India that have found increasing trends in annual mean, maximum and minimum temperatures. The summary also notes studies on changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in central and south Asia.

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CHAPTER – 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 GENERAL

Climate change is now considered one of the most serious threats to human development, as
it has an adverse impact on natural resources, economic activities, food security, human
health and physical infrastructure. That threat is greater in communities and areas where
people’s lives and livelihoods are more highly dependent on the use of natural resources. In
these areas it is therefore very important to adapt to climate change in order to protect rural
livelihoods and encourage sustainable development.Concurrence of scientific evidence shows
that climate change has begun to manifest itself, globally, in the form of increased downpours
and storms, rising temperature and sea level, retreating glaciers, etc. And the Report of Fourth
Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) shows that the
global mean surface air temperature increased by 0.74°C while the global mean sea
temperature (SST) rose by 0.67°C over the last century. India the increasing trend is found in
the annual mean temperature, annual maximum temperature and annual minimum
temperature. Few research studies have been conducted separately on various cities in India
and found the mix trends in temperature series. In regional context, it has been shown diurnal
asymmetry of temperature trends, indicating that the warming over India was solely
contributed by maximum temperature. It was emphasized on the temporal and spatial changes
in temperature and temperature over several regions of India. Comprehensive analysis was
provided for extreme temperature events during Indian monsoon period with increase
(decrease) in the frequency and magnitude of extreme (moderate) rain events over central
India. In recent studies, an increasing trend was indicated in the number of short spell Heavy
rain elements and decreasing trend in the occurrence of long spell rain events in India.
Further, it has been shown that changes in indices of climatic extremes associated with
temperature and precipitation over central and south Asia. Analysis of global observed
changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation shows widespread
significant changes in temperature extremes associated with warm. Over the mountainous
regions, such as the Swiss and Polish Alps, the Rockies, and Andes studies have shown
significant increase in the surface air temperatures. In the mountainous region of the
Himalayas, a limited number of studies in Nepal, covering some parts of the Himalayas and
Tibet have also revealed similar trends based on earlier publications. It was illustrated pre-

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