{"id":30269,"date":"2018-10-26T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30269"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:33:29","slug":"himalayas-warmest-on-record-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayas-warmest-on-record-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayas warmest on record: researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/himalayas-warmest-on-record-researchers\/article23387293.ece\"><strong>Himalayas warmest on record: researchers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recent decades have been the wettest and warmest on record in the Himalayas, say researchers who are alarmed that a \u201cwarming signature\u201d has led to an overall rise in mercury level<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Global warming impacting glaciers\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rising temperatures in western Himalayas:<\/strong>They warn that the impact of global warming is clearly evident over the northwestern Himalayas in the form of rising temperatures in the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The maximum, minimum and mean temperatures in the Himalayas saw a total increase of 0.9 degree, 0.19 degree and 0.65 degree, respectively, over a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not uniform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the warming was not consistent across the Himalayas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greater Himalayas sees the highest rise in temperatures:<\/strong>The highest rise in mean temperature was seen in the Greater Himalayas at 0.87 degree Celsius (1991-2015), followed by the Karakoram Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rise in mercury related with glacier retreat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rise in mercury is in agreement with the comparatively higher rate of glacier retreat in the Greater Himalayas than in the Karakoram Himalayas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study titled: \u201cRecent Wintertime Climatic Variability Over the North West Himalayan Cryosphere\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By SASE: Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratory based in Chandigarh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayas warmest on record: researchers What has happened? Recent decades have been the wettest and warmest on record in the Himalayas, say researchers who are alarmed that a \u201cwarming signature\u201d has led to an overall rise in mercury level \u2018Global warming impacting glaciers\u2019 Rising temperatures in western Himalayas:They warn that the impact of global warming&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayas-warmest-on-record-researchers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Himalayas warmest on record: researchers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}