Increased sea surface temperature affecting Indian monsoon: Study
New Delhi, Oct. 02 (India Science Wire): The agricultural sector plays a key role in the
economy of India and twenty-five other East Asian developing countries across a
distance of 18,000 km (from east to west) and 6,000 km (from south to north). The main
influencing factor in Indian agriculture is the southwest monsoon season from June to
September caused by the cross-equatorial winds that blow from a southwesterly
direction. The source of this wind is located more than 4,000 km away from India near
the Mascarene Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO). The state of agriculture that
includes forestry, hunting, fishing as well the cultivation of crops and livestock
production is determined by this southwest monsoon. The climate across the world is
however changing in many ways ...