Climatic Transition In Punjab Satluj Floodplain

Research Article
Harsimrat Kaur Gill
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0807.0491
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Climatic transition, seasonal variation, annual variation, displacement plots, surfacial transition
Abstract: 

Climatic transition has been noticed at floodplain level with proximate underlying causes. Seasonal and annual phases of climatic conditions have been analyzed for understanding the shift. Thermal and moisture plots have been formed for aligning displacement of months which reflect the shift in identified seasons. Annual average flux in temperature and rainfall regime traced since 1960 to 2011 estimates the annual climatic variation. Change in these variables shows the decrease in average annual temperature by 0.22ºC and increase in average annual rainfall with 89 mm for 2000 to 2011. Although Climatic phenomena’s and their underlying natural and anthropogenic causes are having global, regional and local importance. This study is concentrated at local scale i.e. Indian Punjab Satluj floodplain. This area faced 56.55 percent surfacial transition in the form of land use expansion from 1975 to 2011, which in turn affects climatic elements. At this scale it has been noticed that there is a positive link between the spatial distribution pattern of rainfall regime and net irrigated land.