Curious Case of Drying Northeast India
- Northeast India, one of the wettest places on the Earth has been experiencing rapid drying, especially in the last 30 years.
- Changes in the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) — a pattern of fluctuations in the ocean, particularly over the north Pacific basin are mainly associated with this declined rainfall.The Pacific Decadal Oscillation was named by Steven R. Hare.
- The PDO is a robust, recurring pattern of ocean-atmosphere climate variability centered over the mid-latitude Pacific basin. It is detected as warm or cool surface waters in the Pacific Ocean, north of 20°N.
- During a "warm", or "positive", phase, the west Pacific becomes cooler and ....
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