KANPUR, 07 APRIL: In view of the continuous climate change, the CSA meteorologist has issued a forecast. According to scientists, climate change is accelerating in the last 20 years. According to this, in the next five days, up to 46 percent drought can bring destruction.
According to Dr SN Sunil Pandey, Meteorologist of Chandrashekhar Azad University of Agricultural Technology (CSA), such droughts arise only due to a slight increase in heat. Its speed has increased in the last two decades. In the year 2012-13, it has been seen in countries like North America, Central America, Australia, China and Africa. The world is warming due to the continuing adverse effects of climate change, causing frequent floods and droughts. Scientists have warned that now like the sudden floods in the world, droughts will also knock suddenly and they can cause 33 to 46 percent destruction in just five days.
Researchers say that more monitoring and observation will be helpful in predicting them. It is also very important in view of the changing climate pattern around the world.
Researchers in the study said that there have been very few studies on this topic.
According to the researchers, it is very important to have a clear global picture about the sudden drought so that in order to get information about its development and forms and to know how they are developing at the global level. For this, the researchers studied the hydroclimate data of 21 years.
Researchers collected hydroclimate data from 2000 to 2020 by collecting soil moisture information around the world. According to the data, the sudden droughts are not increasing in number, but their speed is getting faster with the passage of time. In the last 20 years, 33 to 46 percent of such droughts have started coming in five days.
Meteorologists say that in general, more than 30 percent of the drought occurs in just 5 days. On the other hand, normal drought takes five to six months to develop due to the combined effect of various climatic factors. At the same time, due to lack of moisture in the atmosphere, high temperature, low rainfall and high vapour pressure, the moisture starts decreasing from the ground.
