Severe Storms in Changing Climate Scenario with a Distinctive Emphasis on South Asia and India
摘要
The severe storms are the disturbed state of the atmosphere and could come in the forms of thunderstorms, squall lines, cloudbursts, tornadoes, hail, tropical cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes, windstorms, dust and sand storms, winter storms, blizzards, etc. They can be understood and analyzed through meteorological observations and derived information. Besides, they could be represented through a numerical weather model to study the associated physical processes, meteorological characteristics and dynamics. However, the advancement in understanding indicates a role of large scale synoptic conditions and ocean and land feedback in governing these regional and local storms. Also, they show climatological variability and a connection to the changing climate. While the whole globe experiences such storms depending upon their geographical relevance, severity depends upon the prevailing meteorological conditions, and strength of the land and ocean feedbacks. South Asia and India experiences most of these storms and the associated characteristics are found to be altering with a changing climate in this region. Based on the geographical relevance, some of these storms exhibited primarily in South Asia and India are described and discussed in this chapter.