Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
How does climate change affect the process of desertification of India?
- UPSC 2015
- Contemporary Issues
Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, and membership of those classes is fixed by the aridity index, AI = P/PET — mean precipitation over potential evapotranspiration, computed on the Charles Warren Thornthwaite or Howard Latimer Penman formulation. Drylands are AI below 0.65: arid 0.05-0.20, semi-arid 0.20-0.50, dry sub-humid 0.50-0.65.
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- The Variable Climate Change Actually Moves
- Link One: Warming Raises PET, So Aridity Rises Even If Rainfall Does Not Fall
- Link Two: The Same Rainfall, Delivered Worse
- Link Three: The Feedback That Makes It Self-Sustaining
- Weighing It
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