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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Heavy rainfall occurrences in northeast India
<p>In operational meteorology, forecasting heavy rainfall (HRF) events has been a long‐standing challenge in India. This is especially true in certain regions where the physical geography lends itself
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Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa
We explore the relationship between farming practice changes made by households coping with the huge demographic, economic, and ecological changes they have seen in the last 10 years and household food
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A break in the clouds
Clouds and aerosol particles have bedevilled climate modellers for decades. Now researchers are starting to gain the upper hand.
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Plant Study Flags Dangers Of Warming World
Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and
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Trends and variability of monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall for the districts of Maharashtra and spatial analysis of seasonality index in identifying the changes in rainfall regime
Knowledge of mean rainfall and its variability of smaller spatial scale are important for the planners in various sectors including water and agriculture. In the present work long rainfall data series
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Study Indicates a Greater Threat of Extreme Weather
New research suggests that global warming is causing the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the oceans to intensify more than scientists had expected, an ominous finding that may indicate a higher
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Land cover and rainfall interact to shape waterbird community composition
Human land cover can degrade estuaries directly through habitat loss and fragmentation or indirectly through nutrient inputs that reduce water quality. Strong precipitation events are occurring more frequently,
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The effect of climate fluctuation on chimpanzee birth sex ratio
Climate and weather conditions, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, precipitation and temperature influence the birth sex ratio (BSR) of various higher latitude species, including deer, elephant seals
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South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF-3) Pune, India, 19-20 April 2012: Consensus Statement
A consensus outlook for the 2012 southwest monsoon rainfall over South Asia was developed, through an expert assessment of the available indications. The outlook was prepared based on the various prevailing
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Climate change poses threat to fishes, livestock resources
Climate change has been posing serious threat to fisheries and livestock resources in the coastal belt of the country. These areas are highly vulnerable for their direct dependence on climate parameters