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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Blame climate change for extreme weather fluctuations in places like Texas, India
A new study has revealed that climate change could be blamed for extreme and slow weather pattern changes in places like Texas and India. Scientists predicted that more of these extreme weather fluctuations
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Changing pattern of heavy rainstorms in the Indus basin of India under global warming scenarios
Estimation of extremely high rainfall (point or areal) is one of the major components of design storm derivation. The estimation of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) involves selection of heavy rainstorms
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Data-driven behavioural characterization of dry-season groundwater-level variation in Maharashtra, India
This paper looks at the crucial issue of dry-season groundwater-availability in the state of Maharashtra, India. We look at the two key hydro-climatological measurements which are used to implement groundwater
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Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian oscillation: Exploring key model physics in climate simulations
<p>Aimed at reducing deficiencies in representing the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) in general circulation models (GCMs), a global model evaluation project on vertical structure and physical processes
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Decreasing intensity of monsoon low-frequency intraseasonal variability over India
Understanding the changing nature of the intraseasonal oscillatory (ISO) modes of Indian summer monsoon manifested by active and break phase, and their association with extreme rainfall events are necessary
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on impact of El Nino in various states, 07/05/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on impact of El Nino in various states, 07/05/2015. The details of the observed impact of El Nino in various meteorological subdivisions is given in Annexure-1, that
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Climate change sparks tension in tea gardens
Usha Ghatowar smiles wryly when asked about the pay she earns picking leaves at a colonial-era tea garden in Assam. “Do you think `3,000 is enough when your monthly expenses can be double that?” she
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Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes
Climate change includes not only changes in mean climate but also in weather extremes. For a few prominent heatwaves and heavy precipitation events a human contribution to their occurrence has been demonstrated.
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114 years of rainfall in India
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the country's farmlands. In 2014, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year
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114 years of monsoon
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the countrys farmlands. Last year, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year