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Articles on South Asian Monsoon

October 15, 2025

India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme – even though overall rainfall has hardly increased

Ligin Joseph, University of Southampton

Wilder, not wetter: climate change means extreme downpours are becoming far more common.

October 24, 2023

Ashutosh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi; Eedy Sana, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, and Ellen Beatrice Robson, Durham University

Haphazard construction has made the region more vulnerable to increasingly intense rainfall.

September 2, 2022

Ben Clarke, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London, and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato

There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.

Friederike Otto
Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
Eedy Sana
PhD Candidate, Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
Ben Clarke
DPhil Candidate in Environmental Research, University of Oxford
Ashutosh Kumar
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
Luke Harrington
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato
Ellen Beatrice Robson
Postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University
Ligin Joseph
PhD Candidate, Oceanography, University of Southampton