Result of this comprehensive analysis, which includes the response of fifteen
indices over two study periods (i.e., 1901–1940 and 1961–2004), indicates clear signals of change with respect
to the period and region of study and the choice of the ETCCDI indices. While wet day frequency, low-tomoderate
events and consecutive wet days (CWD) exhibit a prominent transition from a pre-1940 wetting to
a post-1960 drying tendency over a large part of the central-north India (CNI), both the wet and dry extremes
have occurred in a spatially less consistent manner during the recent decades. For consecutive dry days (CDD),
the reported less clear global signals could be related to the timescale of analysis, as our sub-seasonal scale results
display consistent changes compared to that of the seasonal and annual scales.