Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Climate
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Snow depth estimation in the Indian Himalaya using multi-channel passive microwave radiometer
<p>Snow depth is an important parameter for avalanche forecast and hydrological studies. In the Himalaya, manual snow depth data collection is difficult due to remote and rugged terrain and the severe
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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 metrics and the carbon footprint of livestock products: where's the beef?
<p>The livestock sector is estimated to account for 15% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 80% of which originate from ruminant animal systems due to high emissions of methane (CH4) from enteric
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The importance of interstitial particle scavenging by cloud droplets in shaping the remote aerosol size distribution and global aerosol-climate effects
In this paper, we investigate the coagulation of interstitial aerosol particles (particles too small to activate to cloud droplets) with cloud drops, a process often ignored in aerosol-climate models.
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Effect of biomass burning over the western North Pacific Rim: wintertime maxima of anhydrosugars in ambient aerosols from Okinawa
Biomass burning (BB) largely modifies the chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols on the globe. We collected aerosol samples (TSP) at Cape Hedo, on subtropical Okinawa Island, from October 2009 to
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Climate forced air-quality modeling at urban scale: sensitivity to model resolution, emissions and meteorology
While previous research helped to identify and prioritize the sources of error in air quality modeling due to anthropogenic emissions and spatial scale effects our knowledge is limited on how these uncertainties
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Renewable energy in Europe: approximated recent growth and knock-on effects
This report introduces several methods the European Environment Agency (EEA) has developed for assessing and communicating early RES growth and the important knock-on effects that RES growth has on the
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The climate in Africa: 2013
The World Meteorological Organization has issued a report on the Climate in Africa 2013, the first in what is intended to be an annual series. It examines temperatures, rainfall and extreme events on
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Climatology and trends of summer high temperature days in India during 1969–2013
Based on the daily maximum air temperature data from 176 stations in India from 1969 to 2013, the climatological distribution of the number of days with high temperature (HT) defined as days with maximum
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Climate change and its role in forecasting energy demand in buildings: A case study of Douala City, Cameroon
The foremost role of a building is to assure the comfort of its occupants. The thermal comfort of a building depends on the outdoor climate and requires a demand in energy for heating and cooling. In this