More intense Indian summer monsoons
Satellite data from 1991 to 2020 show heavier summer rainfall that is likely to continue
- Sept. 18, 2024
A recent case study written in collaboration with EUMETSAT’s Dr Rob Roebeling shows how satellite observations confirm changes in Indian summer monsoons.
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Figure 1: Pre-summer monsoon trends for the month of May in precipitation (left panel), soil moisture (middle left panel), normalized difference vegetation index (middle right panel), and surface temperature (right panel) over the period 2008–2020. The data to produce these images were taken from the in-situ data provided by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the scatterometer surface soil moisture dataset of the Hydrology Satellite Application Facility (H SAF), the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset of the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA SAF), and the temperature dataset of the ECMWF's fifth ECMWF reanalysis (ERA-5) (source: EUMETSAT)