State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Indian Ocean
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Large-scale climatic anomalies affect marine predator foraging behaviour and demography
<p>Determining the links between the behavioural and population responses of wild species to environmental variations is critical for understanding the impact of climate variability on ecosystems. Using
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Warming Indian Ocean weakening monsoon circulation, says study
PANJIM: Monsoons in the country may be in for bad news as scientists predict a significant decreasing trend in the monsoon rainfall over central India. Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, scientist at the Indian Institute
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2015 El Niño is the strongest since 1997-98
Says El Nino weather pattern has strengthened over the last two weeks The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the recently emerged El Niño is now the strongest such event in nearly 20 years. Tropical
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World's first digital map of the ocean floor released
<p>Forty years after the ocean floor was first mapped by hand, a team of Australian researchers has created the first digital map of the entire sea floor. Made by the University of Sydney's School
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A contribution to the selection of tsunami human vulnerability indicators: conclusions from tsunami impacts in Sri Lanka and Thailand (2004), Samoa (2009), Chile (2010) and Japan (2011)
<p>After several tsunami events with disastrous consequences around the world, coastal countries have realized the need to be prepared to minimize human mortality and damage to coastal infrastructures,
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Regional State of the Coast Report: Western Indian Ocean
The Regional State of Coast Report for the western Indian Ocean (WIO) is the first comprehensive regional synthesis to provide insights into the enormous economic potential around the WIO, the consequential
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Monsoon races to Kashmir from Kanyakumari: Equatorial system of clouds & conditions in Indian Ocean may back plentiful rains
Global climatic conditions have turbocharged the monsoon and given it the momentum to take it up to Kashmir in three to four days, a week ahead of schedule, and accelerate agricultural activity in the
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Indian Ocean warming has weakened Monsoon in parts of India: Study
Washington: Rapid warming of the Indian Ocean in the past century has led to a significant decrease in summer Monsoon rainfall over the central-east and northern regions of India, a new study led by an
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Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient
<p>This new study led by an Indian scientist Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, points out a significant decreasing trend in the summer monsoon rainfall over the central Indian subcontinent during the past century. It suggests an important role of the rapid warming in the Indian Ocean in weakening of monsoon circulation and rainfall.</p>
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Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient- Figures Index
<p>Figures index : From the study "Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient".</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150616/ncomms8423/fig_tab/ncomms8423_ft.html"