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Atmospheric brown clouds - regional assessment report with focus on Asia [1]

Increasing amount of soot, sulphates and other aerosol components in atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are causing major threats to the water and food security of Asia and have resulted in surface dimming, atmospheric solar heating and soot deposition in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan-Tibetan (HKHT) glaciers and snow packs. These have given rise to major areas of concern, some of the most critical being observed decreases in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, a north-south shift in rainfall patterns in eastern China, the accelerated retreat of the HKHT glaciers and decrease in snow packs, and the increase in surface ozone. All these have led to negative effects on water resources and crop yields.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
V. Ramanathan [2], Henning Rodhe [3], Madhoolika Agrawal & et al [4]
UNEP [5]
Tags:
Air Pollution [6], Himalaya [7], Agriculture [8], Indian Ocean [9], Health Effects [10], Atmosphere And Ozone Layer [11], Monsoons [12], Climate Change [13], Green House Gases [14], Aerosols [15], Glacial Melt [16], Asia [17], India [18], South Asia [19], Rainfall Pattern [20]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/atmospheric-brown-clouds-regional-assessment-report-focus-asia

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