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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Changes in surface hydrology, soil moisture and gross primary production in the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Niño
<p>The 2015/2016 El Niño event caused severe changes in precipitation across the tropics. This impacted surface hydrology, such as river run-off and soil moisture availability, thereby<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Amazon_El-Nino.pdf"
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Predictability of seasonal precipitation across major crop growing areas in Colombia
<p>Agriculture is one of the sectors that has greatly benefitted from the establishment of climate services. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/precipitation_crops_Colombia.pdf"
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Flooding under changing climate in Vellar river basin using global circulation models
<p>Flooding is one of the major natural disasters from a storm event that is prevalent in many countries and greatly affects river morphology, modifying the flora and fauna of a given river environment.
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Country-level social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach
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Likelihood of concurrent climate extremes and variations over China
<p>Extreme climate events such as droughts and heat waves exert strong impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Estimations of the risks of climate extremes typically focus on one variable in isolation.
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Projected increase in hydropower production in India under climate change
<p>Hydropower is a valuable renewable energy resource in India, which can help in climate change mitigation and meet the increasing energy demands. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Hydropower_climate_change_India.pdf"
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Groundwater depletion causing reduction of baseflow triggering Ganges river summer drying
<p>In summer (pre-monsoon) of recent years, low water level among the last few decades, has been observed in several lower Indian reaches of the Ganges (or Ganga) river (with estimated river water level
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Future climate and runoff projections across South Asia from CMIP5 global climate models and hydrological modelling
<p>This paper presents future climate and runoff projections for the South Asia region under the RCP8.5 scenario with climate change informed by 42 CMIP5 GCMs. Runoff is projected for 0.5° grids using
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District-level assessment of the ecohydrological resilience to hydroclimatic disturbances and its controlling factors in India
<p>The carbon and water cycles play an important role in ecosystem functioning and are linked to each other through different physical and biological processes. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/hydroclimatic_disturbances.pdf
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Quantifying the effects of climate and anthropogenic change on regional species loss in China
<p>Human-induced environmental and climate change are widely blamed for causing rapid global biodiversity loss, but direct estimation of the proportion of biodiversity lost at local or regional scales