Rainfall atlas of India 1971-2020
India is in the tropical monsoon zone and received plenty of rainfall. Most of the annual rainfall occurs during the summer monsoon season (June-September) every year. However, the distribution of rainfall
Rainfall Pattern
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding crop insurance, Anand, Gujarat, 11/08/2021
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Ajitsinh Malubhai Ghummad & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 11/08/2021.</p> <p>The challenge in the present appeal is to an order
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Evaluation of a combined drought indicator and its potential for agricultural drought prediction in southern Spain
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A new combined drought indicator (CDI) is proposed that integrates rainfall, soil moisture and vegetation dynamics.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/drought-indicator-Spain.pdf"
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Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas
<p>Global warming is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe water scarcity (SWS) events, which negatively affect rain-fed crops such as wheat, a key source of calories and protein for
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Summer monsoon of 2019: understanding the performance so far and speculating about the rest of the season
<p>The summer monsoon of 2019 began with a massive deficit in the all-India June rainfall of about 33% of the mean.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/monsoon-2019.pdf" target="_blank"><img
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Kenya: the 2019 long rains mid-season food and nutrition security review report
The Food and Nutrition Security Assessment (FNSA) is a multi-agency, multi-sectoral exercise led by the government of Kenya, and is conducted in 23 arid and semi-arid Counties. Given the bimodal rainfall
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Climate change affects rainfall patterns in crop-producing regions
Rain-fed agriculture currently constitutes 60–95% of farmed land across the developing world. Changing rainfall patterns could have a large impact on agriculture in developing countries. Using over 20
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Pre-monsoon showers elude region, Punjab worst-hit
Overcast skies and intermittent showers notwithstanding, pre-monsoon rains in Punjab this year are deficient by 76 per cent so far, making it worst-hit state in the region and among top three across the
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Persistent spring shortwave cloud radiative effect and the associated circulations over Southeastern China
<p>Clouds strongly modulate regional radiation balance and their evolution is profoundly influenced by circulations.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/cloud-radiative-effect-China-circulation.pdf"
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Intensification of precipitation extremes in the world's humid and water-limited regions
<p>Changes in precipitation totals and extremes are among the most relevant consequences of climate change, but in particular regional changes remain uncertain. While aggregating over larger regions reduces