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Pulak Guhathakurta

• Trends and variability of monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall for the districts of Maharashtra and spatial analysis of seasonality index in identifying the changes in rainfall regime

  Knowledge of mean rainfall and its variability of smaller spatial scale are important for the planners in various sectors including water and agriculture. In the present work long rainfall data series

  • 01/05/2012

  • India Meteorological Department
  • • Rainfall
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Maharashtra
    • India
    • Climate Change

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  Districtwise drought climatology of the Southwest monsoon season over India based on standardized precipitation index (SPI)

  In this new study IMD examines district-wise and all India drought climatology over India for southwest monsoon season using using Percent of Normal(PN) & Standardized Precipitation Index(SPI).Compares drought climatology based on SPI with that based on PN to show that SPI is a better index for monitoring drought conditions over smaller spatial scales like districts, subdivisions etc.

  • 01/03/2010

  • India Meteorological Department
  • • Monsoons
    • Climate Change
    • Drought
    • India
    • Pune
    • Rainfall
    • & et al
    • India Meteorological Department
    • D. S. Pai
    • Latha Sridhar
    • Pulak Guhathakurta