Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome to hopefully an enlightening and thought-provoking blog about the South Asian (Indian) monsoon and how it is influenced by anthropogenic activity.  The Indian monsoon affects approximately 1.5billion people with particular impacts on agriculture, economies and ecosystems. Multiple authors (see later blogs) have documented how the previously stable monsoon has slowly begun to change due to both natural and human actions. These changes are understandably impacting many lives and environments. Subsequently, this blog shall look to highlight and explain some of these anthropogenic activities (land use change, aerosols, green house gases etc.) and natural variations, with a small focus on the societal impacts. To do this I shall look to incorporate a range of media articles, videos and academic publications. 

To get the ball rolling I thought I would post a short video, hopefully encouraging further reading of this blog.  The video is a brief overview of the formation of the Indian monsoon and the consequences. The next blog will provide an outline of what actually is the monsoon and the mechanisms which drive it.