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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Monsoon 2013: a report
This report by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) provides a detailed analysis of the various aspects of operational monitoring and forecasting of observed weather and climate features of 2013 SW monsoon. The report also discussed impact of the monsoon on the major Kharif crops during the season.
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Uncovering consistencies in Indian rainfall trends observed over the last half century
Food security in India is tightly linked to rainfall variability. Trends in Indian rainfall records have been extensively studied but the subject remains complicated by the high spatiotemporal variability
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Mali climate vulnerability mapping
Due to high levels of poverty, all of Mali’s territory and population could be said to be highly vulnerable to future climate change. In spite of the fact that Mali, like its Sahelian neighbors, has a
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Manipur state action plan on climate change
Climate change may alter eco-system as well as biodiversity of a region in many ways. It poses a major challenge to sustainability of social and economic development especially by adversely affecting the
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Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives
A holistic perspective on changing rainfall-driven flood risk is provided for the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Economic losses from floods have greatly increased, principally driven by the expanding
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LU study throws light on waterlogging causes
Bad Drainage, Vanishing Water Bodies, Poor Planning To Blame Lucknow: Close to 60% water logging in Lucknow exists due to improper drainage network system. Of this, blockage in existing drains is the major cause of water logging, concludes study by a research scholar of department of Geology, Lucknow University.
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Monsoon 2013: estimating the impact on agriculture
This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture
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An updated assessment of trends and variability in total and extreme rainfall in the western Pacific
Rainfall records for 23 countries and territories in the western Pacific have been collated for the purpose of examining trends in total and extreme rainfall since 1951. For some countries this is the
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Bihar, Haryana farmers turn ‘climate smart’
Horil Singh, a farmer from Rajapakkar village of Vaishali district in Bihar, has been seeing fluctuations in rainfall pattern and temperature for almost a decade now. This has impacted his paddy and pulse produce to a large extent till a global initiative launched in 2010, to help small farmers in dealing with climate change, helped him in creating vertical drainage systems that let excess rainwater seep quickly back into a natural acquifer.
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Climate shocks and production effliciency
Climate shocks and production effliciency - A presentation by Surender Kumar at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.