Scientists have discovered a new technique which will shed light on the phenomena of winter monsoons -- the heavy autumn and winter rainfalls which can cause floods and landslides across southeast Asia.
While summer monsoons are well researched and understood, there is currently very limited understanding of winter monsoons -- especially of how they have changed during periods when there has been no data available from weather stations.
These regions include some of the world's largest food producers and exporters, causing not only the regional economy but also the already precarious global food trade to be vulnerable to changes in winter monsoon rainfall. A paper detailing their findings, entitled 'Deciphering local and regional hydroclimate resolves contradicting evidence on the Asian monsoon evolution', has been published by the journalAnnabel Wolf, now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine's Department of Earth System Science, said:"The past evolution of the winter and summer monsoons in Southeast Asia has been debated for decades.
"However, the results from the local rainfall samples showed a strong connection between summer and winter monsoons."
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