Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events
Sandeep Pattnaik
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports suggests that consequently occurring climate extremes are likely to increase the frequency and intensity in the future. At present there is no unanimity among scientists to exclusively and directly link such extreme weather events to climate change, however based on number of studies and observation data sets it is agreed that the impact of climate change is evident in many part of the globe including India. High resolution spatio-temporal observation data is one of the major challenges for the weather and climate researchers for accurate understanding of the physical processes, validation of model results and to provide an authenticate representation of climate change scenario over the Indian region. Therefore, reliable long term observation data is key for the progress of weather and climate science in India. The data set is extremely popular and authenticated by several researchers in terms of its representativeness and accuracy.