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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Climate change to affect NE: Pala
New Delhi: India particularly the Northeastern region is going to be affected seriously by the ongoing climate change which impacts the flow of water in the region, Union Minister of State for Water Resources Vincent Pala on Wednesday said. Addressing the world water week at Stockholm in Sweden where Mr Pala is representing India, the Minister said climate change had already been affecting rain
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Fifty-year trends in global ocean salinities and their relationship to broad-scale Warming
Using over 1.6 million profiles of salinity, potential temperature, and neutral density from historical archives and the international Argo Program, this study develops the three-dimensional field of multidecadal
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East London: Extreme rainfall
Research by the Lloyd
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Amazon drought raises research doubts
A once-in-a-century drought struck much of the Amazon rainforest in 2005, reducing rainfall by 60–75% in some areas — and giving scientists a window on to a future coloured by climate change. The drought
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Each district in Maharashtra will have a green plan
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Saturday committed itself to following strict environmental norms as recommended by its newly-appointed consultant, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
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Two opposing effects of absorbing aerosols on global-mean precipitation
Absorbing aerosols affect global-mean precipitation primarily in two ways. They give rise to stronger shortwave atmospheric heating, which acts to suppress precipitation. Depending on the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative flux change, they can also warm up the surface with a tendency to increase precipitation.
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Ecological farming: drought-resistant agriculture
In  this paper Greenpeace illustrates proven, modern farming approaches that help cope with drought using ecological farming. Elaborates on the drought-resistant crop varieties and calls for policy makers to increase funds for research on the system. <br />
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Large-scale wet spell and spatio-temporal rainfall extremes over India during 1951-2007
The main motivation of this comprehensive study is to understand climatological and fluctuation features of the extreme rainfall events (EREs) considering detailed account of spatial variability of rainfall occurrences. Experiences suggest that the EREs are embedded in the large-scale, long period intense rainfall activities during the summer monsoon period.
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Why Sukhna is dying- I catchment neglect
Sukhna, the landmark waterbody of the City Beautiful, is dying. The water level of the lake has receded from 18 feet in 1958 to approximately four-and-a-half feet today.
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Variability in climate in three agroclimatic regions of the Punjab
<p>Annual variability of different climatic parameters was analysed from historical weekly meteorological data for three different stations of Punjab namely Ballowal Saunkhri, Ludhiana and Bathinda representing the three different agroclimatic regions of the state. </p>