Impact of ENSO on Summer Monsoon in Southern Parts of Pakistan

Author

Bhutto, Abdul ; Wei, Ming ; Liu, Yan-an ; Li, Nan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Meteorol. Disaster, Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci. &Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

26-28 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

4903

Lastpage

4906

Abstract

The impact of ENSO (El-Nino/Southern Oscillation) on summer monsoon rain fall in southern parts of Pakistan is studied for deeply understanding the characteristics of summer rainfall variation and factors causing severe water shortages in already drought prone regions. The 16 stations data of summer rainfall, sea surface temperature and ENSO during 1951-2000 has been analyzed. The results comparing the rainfall and SST anomaly during the period leads to the idea that the all ENSO events are not essentially correlated with the poor monsoon in southern parts of Pakistan. The research results show that the relationship among ENSO, summer monsoon and drought is uncertainty. Further research is needed to pay attention to find the key factor of impact on summer monsoon rain fall in southern parts of Pakistan for attribution and development of better forecasting techniques for planning and development in the region.

Keywords

El Nino Southern Oscillation; climatology; hydrology; ocean temperature; rain; AD 1951 to 2000; ENSO; El-Nino Southern Oscillation; Pakistan; SST anomaly; drought prone regions; forecasting techniques; sea surface temperature; stations data; summer monsoon rain fall; summer rainfall variation; water shortages; Educational technology; Information science; Irrigation; Laboratories; Meteorology; Ocean temperature; Physics; Rain; Remote sensing; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4909-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISE.2009.654

Filename

5454845