Climate security in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional
Bay Of Bengal
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Depression in Bay of Bengal intensifies into cyclone
NEW DELHI: The depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, and lies centred 400 km east of Chennai on Tuesday evening. According to a bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department, the system is likely to intensify further and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast, between Ongole and Visakhapatnam, by the early hours of Thursday.
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Storm warning signal hoisted at Orissa ports
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Monday hoisted storm warning signal in four of its ports as a depression formed over south-east Bay of Bengal was likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm, an official said.
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Cyclone likely to hit AP coast by May 19
Hyderabad, May 17: The state government on Sunday alerted the collectors of all the coastal districts about the formation of a depression in the Bay of Bengal.
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Workshop on marine eco-system begins
Visakhapatnam, May 5: The Visakhapatnam zonal base of Fishery Survey of India would hold two-day national inception workshop here on the
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GSLV-D3 crashes into Bay of Bengal
Sriharikota (AP): The first test flight of India's indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage was "not successful" as the vehicle lost control 293 seconds after the launch and crashed into the Bay of Bengal.
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New Moore no more: rising sea claims island in Bay of Bengal
Once a flashpoint in Indo-Bangla ties, the New Moore island or Purbasha in the Bay of Bengal, which Dhaka called the South Talpatti, has ceased to exist, consumed by hungry tides and the rising sea. This was announced on Monday by the School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University after it scrutinised recent satellite maps of the region.
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Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales a paper presented by Chandra Venkataraman at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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On the predictive behaviour of the Indian monsoon in June 2009
Francis and Gadgil1 have made many interesting correlations of meteorological variables and events, and have proposed that unfavourable SST (sea surface temperature) gradient between the Bay of Bengal and EEIO (eastern equatorial Indian ocean) led to the large deficit of monsoon rainfall in 2009.
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Occurrence and distribution of bacterial indicators and pathogens in coastal waters of Orissa
Bacterial population in the coastal water of Orissa, up to 10 km from shoreline along 6 transects were observed during 2005-06 and 2006-07. Total viable counts (TVC), total coliforms (TC), faecal coliforms (FC), faecal streptococci (FS), presumptive E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, Proteus/Klebsiella, total Vibrio, Vibrio cholera, V.
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Documentation of selected adaptation strategies to climate change in rice cultivation
This paper highlights published cases related to various climatic conditions that have impacts on rice cultivation practices. Due to the needs to continue rice farming, whether for traditional, cultural or economic reasons, rice farmers in Asia resorted to various adaptation practices that might have deviated from their common practices.