Guwahati, March 21 -- bySimrin Sirur

Extreme one-day rainfall events over the northeastern parts of Bangladesh and India region, including the state of Meghalaya, quadrupled over the four decades from 1979 onwards, due to the effects of climate change, a new study from researchers across India, Bangladesh and the U.S. has found.

Published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, thestudyfound the quadrupling of extreme one-day rainfall events could spread to the Southeast Bangladesh region over the medium- to long term. "We have discovered that the worst cases of extreme rainfall events have already started occurring in this region due to climate change," Abdullah Al Fahad, an assistant research scientist at the NAS...