{"id":274640,"date":"2023-12-21T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=274640"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:59:05","slug":"himalayas-cool-amid-global-climate-crisis-stumping-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayas-cool-amid-global-climate-crisis-stumping-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayas Cool Amid Global Climate Crisis, Stumping Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>– This post is based on the article “Scientists stunned as Himalayas get cooler despite global climate crisis<\/strong>” published in “Wion”<\/strong> on 13th December 2023.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a surprising Himalayan phenomenon was highlighted that could slow down the impact of the global climate crisis.<\/p>\n

What is this Phenomenon?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Scientists observed that in the Himalayas, when high temperatures hit high-altitude ice masses, ‘katabatic’ winds<\/strong> are triggered that blow cold air to lower-altitude areas.<\/p>\n

2) The study shows that a temperature gap<\/strong> is created<\/strong> between the warmer mountain air and the cooler air in contact with ice masses, resulting in enhanced turbulent heat exchange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3) As the warm air gets cooler and denser, it sinks, triggering the katabatic winds in neighbouring areas down the slope.<\/p>\n

4) This phenomenon might mitigate the impacts of global warming in certain regions<\/p>\n

What are Katabatic Winds?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Anabatic-And-Katabatic-Winds\"
Source-<\/strong> marine insight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1) A katabatic wind, also known as a drainage wind or fall wind, is the movement of high-density air from higher to lower elevations<\/strong> down a slope under gravity’s force.<\/p>\n

2) It occurs at night<\/strong> when the highlands radiate heat and are cooled.<\/p>\n

3) Examples<\/strong>– bora in the Adriatic, Bohemian Wind in the Ore Mountains, Santa Ana in southern California, and piteraq winds in Greenland.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus- Geography\/Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– This post is based on the article “Scientists stunned as Himalayas get cooler despite global climate crisis” published in “Wion” on 13th December 2023. Why in the News? According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a surprising Himalayan phenomenon was highlighted that could slow down the impact of the global climate… Continue reading Himalayas Cool Amid Global Climate Crisis, Stumping Scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,11209],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-274640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-geography-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":12,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703191605},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274640","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}