- The document discusses how changes in land use and land cover (LULC) in India since the 1950s have contributed to the observed weakening of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall.
- Between the 1980s and 2000s, large areas of forest land in central and northeast India were converted to cropland, reducing leaf area indices by around 20%.
- Climate modeling simulations that incorporated the different LULC maps found decreases in monsoon rainfall over northeast India and the Ganges River basin, where recycled precipitation typically contributes more to rainfall. This was attributed to reduced evapotranspiration and recycled precipitation from the LULC changes.
- While other factors like warming oceans and increased aerosols also
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1. Weakening of Indian Summer
Monsoon Rainfall due to Changes in
Land Use Land Cover
RAKESH S
2. INTRODUCTION
• Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) contributes 80% of the total annual
precipitation in India and controls the agricultural productivity and economy of the
country
• Observations indicate that ISMR shows a statistically significant decreasing trend
since 1950
• Weakening of ISMR is mainly linked with large-scale perturbations and circulations.
However, the local changes too contributing this
• Multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain this decrease
- higher aerosol emissions, warming of the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO)
which weakens the SST gradient
3. “None of the models considers the recent changes in LULC over India.”
Land surface feedback to the atmosphere plays a major role in climate
systems
What happens after 1950s?
• agricultural intensification
• deforestation with conversion of forest land to crop land
Modelling of deforestation across the global monsoon region showed an
18% decline in precipitation in India. These models consider hypothetical
scenarios for full deforestation across the entire monsoon region
4. How agriculture affects?
• Evapotranspiration(ET) from land surface vegetation
• Precipitation resulting from local land surface ET - known as recycled
precipitation(RP)
It is observed that,
• During the initial phase of a monsoon, oceanic sources play a major role, and the
soil is recharged with moisture.
• During the latter half of a summer monsoon (August and September), land surface
ET increases as recycled precipitation increases,(a pattern that is more prominent
in the Ganga Basin and Northeast India)
• This recycled precipitation accounts for approximately 20–25% of the rainfall in
North India (Ganga Basin) and Northeast India during AS
5. The clouds in this
image of the Amazon
Rainforest are a result
of evapotranspiration.
6. LULC from the 1980s (LULC map of 1987) based on satellite imagery
collected by AVHRR and the 2000s based on satellite imagery from MODIS
(LULC map of 2005)
7. • During the 1980s, the dominant LULC type was woody savanna, which
was mostly forest land
• Because of development and agricultural intensification, these regions
were largely deforested, and converted to cropland
• In Northeast India, the dominant LULC changed from woody savanna to
evergreen broadleaf because of increased tea plantations.
8. In general, approximately
20% of leaf area index (LAI)
has been reduced in the core
monsoon zone
LAI = m2 leaf area/m2
ground area
9. To understand the effects of these changes, the regional monsoon is
simulated with WRF coupled with Community Land Model
(CLM4.0), forced with different LULC types.
10. Community Land Model(CML)
• CLM recognizes land cover type
• In CLM, the surface is represented by five primary sub-grid land cover types
(glacier, lake, wetland, urban, vegetated) in each grid cell. The vegetated portion
of a grid cell is further divided into patches of up to 4 of 16 plant functional
types, each with its own leaf and stem area index and canopy height.
• Leaf and stem area indices (m2 leaf area/m2 ground area) are updated in CLM-
WRF daily by interpolating between monthly values linearly
11. Simulated WRF-CLM with nudging and imposed LULC for both
the 1980s (1987) and the 2000s (2005)
12. The differences are negative when the 1980s LULC
run is subtracted from the 2000s LULC
13. Inference:
• Negative differences denote the changes in monsoon rainfall due to large scale
conversion of woody savannah to crop land
• These negative differences are larger and more prevalent in Northeast India and the
Ganga Basin, where higher contributions of recycled precipitation to monsoons.
• This show a strong decline in monsoon rainfall in Northeast India, the Ganga Basin
and some regions of Central India
• This observation indicates that the effects of an experimental large-scale LULC
change in India—specifically, the change from forest land to crop land—may lead to
a significant decline in ISMR, similar in extent to the observed changes
15. • Decrease in ET due to deforestation and conversion of woody savanna to crop
land.
• Compared to cropland, woody savanna has higher root depth hence, it also has
higher water intake resulting in higher ET.
• The results show a decrease in recycled precipitation due to a decrease in ET.
also found that this decrease is higher at the Ganga Basin and Northeast India as
expected, where the observed recycling ratio (ratio of recycled to total
precipitation) is high
• Amount of RP is quantified using Dynamic Recycling Model (DRM)
• Low CAPE is presumably due to a reduced supply of moisture, which suggests
an increase in atmospheric stability
17. • Wind field show a slight weakening of south westerlies from the Arabian Sea
and winds from the Bay of Bengal. Such changes result into lower moisture
fluxes from moisture sources to sinks with weakening monsoon
precipitation.
• The simulated temperature remains unaltered over the Ganga Basin and
Northeast India with the changes in LULC, where maximum changes in
recycled precipitation are simulated
• The tropospheric temperature gradient (ΔTT) is computed to understand the
synoptic scale processes. The tropospheric temperature (TT) is defined as the
average of temperature vertically between 200 hPa and 700 hPa.
18.
19. • ΔTT is a proxy for large-scale circulation
• No significant changes are observed in simulated ΔTT due to LULC changes.
• This is expected and consistent with the conclusion, suggesting the large-scale
circulation affecting moisture transport from distant oceanic moisture sources
remains the same
• i.e. changes in LULC lead to a decrease in recycled precipitation not ΔTT
• The ΔTT from ERA-interim reanalysis dataset. Significant differences are observed
between the simulated and re-analyzed ΔTT
• The deviation of ΔTT is probably originates from the selection of the threshold
wave number during nudging. Further decrease in the threshold wave number
would probably result in merging simulated ΔTT to the reanalysis
20. CONCLUSION
• Changes in decreased ET and subsequently a decrease in recycled
precipitation leading to a decline in monsoon precipitation. This is similar
in extent to the observed recent decadal weakening of monsoon
precipitation.
• Other reasons may also account for this observed weakening, such as the
warming of Indian Ocean SST, aerosol emission resulting in cooling over
land mass
• However, the findings highlight the need to consider changes in LULC in
climate model projections, because such changes have a significant role in
precipitation trends
21. • The future scope of this present work is to perform detection and attribution
studies for potential declines of Indian monsoons with model runs forced
with SST warming only, aerosol forcing only, LULC changes only and all
controlling factors together.
The land surface representation in climate models used for
simulation of monsoon at different scales also needs to be improved to
consider the significant role of LULC and land surface ET on the changing
behaviour of the Indian monsoon
22. Limitations and uncertainty in the estimation of LULC changes:
1. The historical satellite images are of coarse resolution.
2. The LULC from the two periods were obtained from two different sources.
3. Differences exist in the classification schemes of land types and methods of data
extraction procedures for the two periods.
4. Changes in LULC might have resulted in changes in emissions of absorbing and
scattering aerosols. These changes would have affected the monsoon circulation,
which has not been considered here
5. The land surface model considered here uses natural hydrological processes
without human interventions, such as irrigation through ground water pumping and
reservoir operation, which can have significant feedback to monsoon circulation.
23. The LULC map for 1987 obtained from the University of Maryland (UMD), takes
the dominant LULC of a selected grid, hence, the final LULC map have resulted in a
small number of misclassifications due to merged classes
The overall accuracy of this LULC map was approximately 81%
MODIS, may have misclassified some land types such as savannahs and woody
savannahs, open shrub lands and grasslands due to similar biophysical and spectro-
thermal properties
Some of the misclassifications can be attributed to noisy pixels, inconsistency in the
ancillary data sources
So why I think this research paper is important
So any change in ISMR is directly affecting the economy of the country and life of more than one billion people
Evapotranspiration = transpiration + evaporation
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer which measures reflectance of earth(5 spectral band) - NOAA
Moderate resolution imaging spectro radiometer(36)
As the LULC are obtained for these two time scales using different methods from different sources, the detected deforestation may have considerable uncertainty. Here, they are using the regional runs as a representative experiment to understand the impacts of large-scale deforestation on monsoon rainfall
horizontal grid resolutions is 36 km. Lateral boundary conditions are provided by (ECMWF)
reanalysis data or ERA-I data with 6-hourly outputs (00, 06, 12, 18 UTC) at a 0.75° × 0.75° horizontal resolution over 30 pressure levels
Observed (IMD) gridded rainfall data at a 0.25° × 0.25° resolution
Prominent in end of monsoon (August & September)
DRM track the moisture to compute the recycled precipitation. This model assumes a well-mixed atmospheric condition.
CAPE is effectively positive Buoyancy, energy the parcel will have which makes it to rise certain distance through the atmosphere(more moisture=less denser=more buoyancy)
6. The DRM considered here is based on the assumption of well-mixed atmospheric conditions.