Climate Change Indicators and Spatiotemporal Shift in Monsoon Patterns in Pakistan

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Decadal variations of total rainfall and seasonal mean temperature during monsoon season in Pakistan; all the time series after 1990 have shown a decrease in monsoon precipitation, the decrease being the sharpest in the last eight years. Increase in temperature is steepest in the last 8 years as well while 1980–1989 and 2000–2009 showed a slight decrease in temperature.

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