{"id":245590,"date":"2023-05-31T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245590"},"modified":"2023-05-31T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:44:19","slug":"records-from-lake-sediments-of-indus-river-valley-in-ladakh-help-reconstruct-climate-variation-19-to-6-thousand-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/records-from-lake-sediments-of-indus-river-valley-in-ladakh-help-reconstruct-climate-variation-19-to-6-thousand-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Records from lake sediments of Indus River Valley in Ladakh help reconstruct climate variation 19 to 6 thousand years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Records from lake sediments of Indus River Valley in Ladakh help reconstruct climate variation 19 to 6 thousand years ago<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published i<\/span>n<b> PIB <\/b>on <b>31st May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study has arrived at a conclusion that the cold desert of Ladakh saw a period of monsoon-type rainfall some 17,000 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Background<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ladakh region in the Trans-Himalaya forms an environmental boundary between the North Atlantic and monsoon forcings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its location is ideal to gain insight into the variations of the atmospheric circulations like westerly and Indian summer monsoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A comprehensive understanding of the variability of these atmospheric circulations is essential, particularly in the wake of global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the study conducted on Ladakh?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences has used sediment deposits recovered from ancient lakes in the Indus River valley in Ladakh to retrace climate changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study has found that the cold desert of Ladakh saw a period of monsoon-type rainfall for 900 years (17,400 to 16,500 years ago) within the dominant westerly period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cold arid period was followed by a strong monsoon period and subsequent weakening monsoon phase with enhanced El Nino activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cRecords from lake sediments of Indus River Valley in Ladakh help reconstruct climate variation 19 to 6 thousand years ago\u201d published in PIB on 31st May 2023 What is the News? A study has arrived at a conclusion that the cold desert of Ladakh saw a period&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/records-from-lake-sediments-of-indus-river-valley-in-ladakh-help-reconstruct-climate-variation-19-to-6-thousand-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Records from lake sediments of Indus River Valley in Ladakh help reconstruct climate variation 19 to 6 thousand years ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-245590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702057028},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245590","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}