Do the western Himalayas defy global warming?

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Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3117201y&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 17, CiteID L17201

Physics

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Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Global Change: Geomorphology And Weathering (1824, 1886)

Scientific paper

Observational records and reconstructions from tree rings reflect premonsoon (March to May) temperature cooling in the western Himalaya during the latter part of the 20th century. A rapid decrease of minimum temperatures at around three times higher rate, as compared to the rate of increase in maximum temperatures found in local climate records is responsible for the cooling trend in mean premonsoon temperature. The increase of the diurnal temperature range is attributed to large scale deforestation and land degradation in the area and shows the higher influence of local forcing factors on climate in contrast to the general trend found in higher latitudes of the northern Hemisphere.

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