Scientists at Vanderbilt University at Tennessee in the US were recently found stating that the study of 50 years old stalagmite in Meghalaya cave can reveal Climate Change secrets and bear the key to predicting Monsoon patterns. They say that the study of the rock growth can help them predict upcoming droughts and floods, if any.
Interestingly the same area of Meghalaya also receives the most amount of rains in a year.
Monsoon plays a crucial role in a developing country like that of India where each year the rains form this season provides water to more than a half and a billion people. A small change in the pattern can lead to devastating consequences like that of a flood or a drought. We for sure need something more to our predictions to hone them even better for a country like ours.
The scientists have declared that the stalagmites from the Mawmluh Cave and the surrounding region indicate the recurrence of intense, long droughts in India over the last several thousand years.
In the study, published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’, the team found an unexpected connection between winter amounts in northeast India and climatic conditions in the Pacific Ocean.
The researchers have noted that potentially powerful information about annual rainfall variability in Northeast India has till now gone unnoticed in stalagmite records thus far.
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