âScientists who have devoted their careers to studying the monsoon and predicting its dimensions say that the prognostications can be incredibly difficult,â Vikas Bajaj wrote in the New York Times's Green blog. âAdding to the complexity is global warming, which could potentially cause monsoon patterns to change.â
But in a recent paper in Nature Climate Change, âresearchers write that they are beginning to understand more about the systems driving the monsoon and that they hope to improve their projections in years to come,â Mr. Bajaj wrote.
Read the excerpts of the interview Mr. Bajaj conducted recently with Andrew Turner, a researcher in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in England who was co-authored the article wi th H. Annamalai.