Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Rainfall Pattern
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Nature of forest fires in Uttarakhand: frequency, size and seasonal patterns in relation to pre-monsoonal environment
<p>Man-made forest fires in the traditionally populated zone (about 800–2000 m altitude) are common in much of the Central Himalaya, and are a major topic of environmental debate. This study based
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Amazon could face intense wildfire season this year, Nasa warns
Conditions created by the strong El Niño event that warmed up Pacific waters in 2015 and early 2016 altered rainfall patterns around the world. In the Amazon basin, that meant reduced rainfall during the
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Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels
Differences in phenological responses to climate change among species can desynchronise ecological interactions and thereby threaten ecosystem function. To assess these threats, we must quantify the relative
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A synoptic-scale perspective of heavy rainfall over Chennai in November 2015
<p>The South Indian city of Chennai experienced three phases of heavy rainfall that resulted in devastating flood during November and early December of 2015. We find that propagating convective systems
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Your morning cup of tea under threat; here’s why
India’s favourite morning pick-me-up is set to give some serious nightmares to its policymakers. Thirty-four years from now, roughly 90% of tea areas in Assam could be “unsuitable” for plantation, hit
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Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion
<p>The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) has warmed and grown substantially during the past century. The IPWP is Earth’s largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall,
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Effects of sample size on estimation of rainfall extremes at high temperatures
<p>High precipitation quantiles tend to rise with air temperature, following the so-called Clausius–Clapeyron scaling. This CC-scaling relation breaks down, or even reverts, for very high temperatures.
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Anthropogenic Mediterranean warming essential driver for present and future Sahel rainfall
The long-lasting Sahel drought in the 1970s and 1980s caused enormous human and socio-economic losses, driving extensive research on its causes. Although changes in global and regional sea surface temperatures
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Rapid attribution of the May/June 2016 flood-inducing precipitation in France and Germany to climate change
<p>The extreme precipitation that would result in historic flooding across areas of northeastern France and southern Germany began on May 26th when a large cut-off low spurred the development of several
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Impact of the upper tropospheric cooling trend over Central Asia on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall and the Bay of Bengal cyclone tracks
<p>The Indian summer monsoon rainfall had a threedecade long alternate dry and wet epochs during about 150 years from 1840 to 1989. The dry epochs resulted in frequent drought monsoons affecting agriculture,