{"id":174183,"date":"2022-03-05T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=174183"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:21:01","slug":"answered-the-wind-speed-in-major-indian-cities-has-been-slowing-down-consistently-and-significantly-over-several-decades-highlight-the-reasons-and-implications-of-slowing-winds-in-urban-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-the-wind-speed-in-major-indian-cities-has-been-slowing-down-consistently-and-significantly-over-several-decades-highlight-the-reasons-and-implications-of-slowing-winds-in-urban-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] The wind speed in major Indian cities has been slowing down consistently and significantly over several decades. Highlight the reasons and implications of slowing winds in urban areas."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Context of climate change with the Slowing wind.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:<\/strong>\u00a0Mention the Reasons of slowing winds in the urban areas also write the Implications of slowing winds<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Give a way forward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The declining wind speed also referred to as\u00a0<strong>global terrestrial stilling<\/strong>\u00a0is a major cause of concern worldwide. It is one such phenomenon that poses high impacts on climate change. The wind speed\u00a0<strong>is falling at 0.5km per hour<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>every decade<\/strong>\u00a0causing concern in coming times.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Reasons of slowing winds in the urban areas:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to\u00a0<strong>land use changes and more abundant and taller buildings,<\/strong>\u00a0there has been an\u00a0<strong>Increase in surface roughness.<\/strong>\u00a0It absorbs some of the wind\u2019s energy which is one of the reasons attributed for slowing winds in the urban areas.<\/li>\n<li>Cities with many narrow streets and tall buildings become urban canyons, which can block natural wind flow that would bring cooling effects.<\/li>\n<li>U<strong>rban \u2018heat islands\u2019 phenomenon in also a main contributors to slowing winds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Studies in Korea revealed that wind speeds are negatively correlated with population density.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Implications of slowing winds in urban areas<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of Implications of slowing winds are mentioned as below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changing Rainfall Pattern<\/strong>: As the slow winds cannot carry moisture for long it can result in altered rainfall patterns<\/li>\n<li>Survival of\u00a0<strong>wind-dispersed plant specie<\/strong>s is highly as they are also dependent on wind speeds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on Agriculture<\/strong>: Winds increase transpiration, as agriculture depends crucially on transpiration which in turn needs evaporation. Therefore, due to slowing of winds transpiration gets impacted in plants.<\/li>\n<li>The increasing supply of carbon dioxide to the plants resulting in greater photosynthesis rates is also altered due to the influence of slowing down of speed in winds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on wind-energy sector<\/strong>: Falling wind speed also has huge implications for the wind-energy sector. A 5 % fall in wind speed leads to an almost 17% fall in wind energy in an average turbine.<\/li>\n<li>Lower urban wind speeds also mean\u00a0<strong>that air pollution will take longer to get dispersed,<\/strong>\u00a0thus making places a toxic gas sink and increasing public-health problems.<\/li>\n<li>Decrease in wind speeds creates\u00a0<strong>a large influence on atmospheric parameters\u00a0<\/strong>posing severe implications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Natural phenomena need to be scientifically investigated<\/strong>\u00a0for their implications so as to broader socio-economic and cultural outcomes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interdisciplinary engagement of India\u2019s meteorological<\/strong>\u00a0data to have an informed understanding of these winds so that we can formulate adaptation strategies<\/li>\n<li>As urbanization has a big effect on slowing winds and climate change we can move towards<strong>\u00a0building Sustainable and Environmentally-friendly Cities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Population Control<\/strong>\u00a0can also prove to be impactful measure to control the further impacts.<\/li>\n<li>The need of the hour is to make wind speed an attention gaining issue so as to achieve better outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0Context of climate change with the Slowing wind. Body:\u00a0Mention the Reasons of slowing winds in the urban areas also write the Implications of slowing winds Conclusion: Give a way forward The declining wind speed also referred to as\u00a0global terrestrial stilling\u00a0is a major cause of concern worldwide. It is one such phenomenon that poses high impacts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-the-wind-speed-in-major-indian-cities-has-been-slowing-down-consistently-and-significantly-over-several-decades-highlight-the-reasons-and-implications-of-slowing-winds-in-urban-areas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] The wind speed in major Indian cities has been slowing down consistently and significantly over several decades. Highlight the reasons and implications of slowing winds in urban areas.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-174183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-climate-change","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}