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Regional effects of global warming are long-term significant changes in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region due to global warming. The world average temperature is rising due to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. The changes in climate are not expected to be uniform across the earth, when the global temperature changes. In particular, land areas change more quickly than oceans, and northern high latitudes change more quickly than the tropics, and the margins of biome regions change faster than do their cores.
Regional effects of global warming vary in nature. Some are the result of a generalized global change, such as rising temperature, resulting in local effects, such as melting ice. In other cases, a change may be related to a change in a particular ocean current or weather system. In such cases, the regional effect may be disproportionate and will not necessarily follow the global trend.
There are three major ways in which global warming will make changes to regional climate: melting or forming ice, changing the hydrological cycle (of evaporation and precipitation), and changing currents in the oceans and air flows in the atmosphere. The coast can also be considered a region and will suffer severe impacts from sea-level rise.
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Reddy, P.P. (2015). Regional Impacts. In: Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2199-9_5
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