As India welcomes another monsoon season, climate experts are turning their attention skyward —and with good reason. The clouds that bring life-sustaining rain to our fields are changing in ways that could have long-term implications for agriculture, weather forecasting, and climate resilience. A recent study led by Saloni Sharma, from the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in collaboration with IIT Madras and Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel, offers compelling observational evidence of how global warming is reshaping India’s monsoonal cloud patterns. The research, published in Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier, July 2024), focuses on how the vertical structure and type of clouds over the Indian subcontinent have evolved during the first two decades of 21st century.

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