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Article: Asian monsoon system and North Atlantic climate are linked.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- February 10, 2003
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2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than half the world's population depends on the Asian monsoon to bring much needed moisture for agriculture and basic human needs. But the yearly rains can also bring peril.
Surging flood waters from the summer 2002 monsoon killed more than 800 people in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, displacing millions of others.
Scientists have observed that the Asian monsoon has been gaining strength during the past few centuries, possibly due to rising global temperatures. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in 1994 that global warming could intensify the monsoon and increase monsoon variability.