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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Deforestation in temperate zone cuts rainfall in tropics by 18%
In yet another demonstration of the inter-connectedness of the planetary ecosystem, a study has shown that large-scale deforestation in the temperate and high latitudes can drastically affect rainfall
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Coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability: a cross-country study of smallholder farmers in South Asia
<p>Concerns over climate change and climatic variability are growing in South Asia because of the potential detrimental impacts of these phenomena on livelihoods. Such growing concerns demonstrate a need
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Effects of large-scale deforestation on precipitation in the monsoon regions: Remote versus local effects
<p><img alt="" src="http://downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/Diganta-Talukdar.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 203px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />Large-scale deforestation could cause monsoon
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Climate change, changing rainfall and increasing water scarcity: an integrated approach for planning adaptation and building resilience of smallholder subsistence livelihoods in Nepal
This research report assesses water scarcity and its impacts on smallholder subsistence livelihoods in the context of climate change in Nepal, a mountainous country located entirely within the Ganges River
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Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall in Anand District of Gujarat state
<p>Rainfall Variability is one of the key factors that affect agricultural production in any region. Hence the proper understanding of rainfall pattern and its trends may help water resources development
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Scientists Look to the Past to Predict Future Rainfall Patterns in the American West
The American Southwest now has a 50 percent chance of entering a 30-year "megadrought." Scientists have examined the past in order to better understand rainfall patterns of today and have found that while
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Changes in observed climate extremes in global urban areas
<p>Climate extremes have profound implications for urban infrastructure and human society, but studies of observed changes in climate extremes over the global urban areas are few, even though more than
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Multidecadal variability of the continental precipitation annual amplitude driven by AMO and ENSO
<p>As the water vapor content in the atmosphere scales with temperature, a warmer world is expected to feature an intensification of the hydrological cycle. Work to date has mainly focused on mean precipitation
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Twenty first century climatic and hydrological changes over Upper Indus Basin of Himalayan region of Pakistan
<p>This study is based on both the recent and the predicted twenty first century climatic and hydrological changes over the mountainous Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which are influenced by snow and glacier
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Climate change and water in the UK – past changes and future prospects
Climate change is expected to modify rainfall, temperature and catchment hydrological responses across the world, and adapting to these water-related changes is a pressing challenge. This paper reviews