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
Monsoons
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Drought and El Ni o
Are periods of drought in India linked to cyclical weather patterns
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Reduction of tropical cloudiness by soot
Measurements and models show that enhanced aerosol concentrations can augment cloud albedo not only by increasing total droplet cross-sectional area, but also by reducing precipitation and thereby increasing
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Long-period fluctuations in monsoon floods in the Deccan Peninsula, India
In the present study, the temporal patterns of monsoon floods on five large rivers of the Deccan Peninsula have been investigated. Analyses of the long-term annual maximum discharge/state data, available for the last 100 years or so, show non-random behaviour in terms of distinct periods of high and low floods.
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Against the wall
Even as experts argue that seawalls are not an answer to coastal erosion, the Kerala government is planning another project
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Will it, won t it
Indian meteorologists say the Pacific current El Ni o would not disrupt monsoons in India. Foreign experts disagree
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Water way
With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time.
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Cropped harvest
The much awaited monsoon in Bangladesh spells doom for the nation
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No digging
An ambitious masterplan to tackle Bombay's perennial water-logging problem during its ferocious monsoons will use an innovative, sub-surface "no dig" technology. The new system, part of a Rs
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Signals of the change in monsoonal precipitation at around 2,000 years BP in a sediment core off central west coast of India
A 4.80 m long shallow water sediment core, collected from the inner shelf (at 22 m water depth) off Karwar, near Kali river mouth is studied for foraminiferal tracers of palaeomonsoons. The climate history
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Where have we gone wrong?
With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?