Abstract
The detection of weather and climate change caused by urbanisation is an important issue to understand and future projection of local weather change due to anthropogenic activities. Observational and climatological studies of alteration in convective phenomena over and around the urban area are reviewed with a focus on urban-modified downwind enhancement of rainfall. Causative factors for the alteration of urban precipitation can be urban heat island, surface roughness and anthropogenic aerosol. Monitoring of urban climate through high-resolution datasets was found to be quite important in today’s era of climate change. A detailed study through high-resolution CHIRPS-gridded data has been done for the cities of Patna and Gaya. The Mann–Kendall test and Pettitt’s test also indicated a changing trend in the rainfall intensity regime in the recent past for Patna, while a decreasing rainfall over Gaya has been envisaged by time-series analysis.
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Kumar, P., Barat, A., Sarthi, P.P., Tiwari, D.K. (2023). Possible Influence of Urbanisation on Rainfall in Recent Past. In: Pande, C.B., Moharir, K.N., Singh, S.K., Pham, Q.B., Elbeltagi, A. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources, Ecosystems and Agricultural Systems. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19059-9_6
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