Mapping of drought areas over India
This document by national climate centre of IMD computes district wise drought probabilities across India for 319 districts having long data series of rainfall. Has done mapping for moderate & severe drought probabilities for various districts & demarcates regions belonging to different class intervals of probabilities of drought.
Mapping of the extreme events is one of the adaptation strategies to consequences of increasing climatic variability and climate changes. Drought is one of the short-term extreme event. There is no operational practice to forecast the drought. One of the suggestions is to update mapping of drought prone areas for developmental planning. In the present study, authors have tried to compute districtwise drought probabilities all over India for 319 districts having long data series of rainfall. Mapping for moderate and severe drought probabilities for India for various districts has been done and regions belonging to different class intervals of probabilities of drought have been demarcated. Such type of information would be a
good tool for planning purposes and for input in modelling.
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