Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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Natures forecasters
Proof in hand
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Crop insurance
Farmers are opting for weather-based crop insurance due to frequent weather disturbances. Prashant Bachhav is one of them. He has six hectares (ha) in Nashik district in Maharashtra. Monsoon normally arrives in Nashik by June 10. Accordingly, Bachhav sowed jowar and bajra by mid-June. This year rainfall was sparse in June. Bachhav feared the yield would decrease by 30-40 per cent. He insures
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Cost of inaccuracy
Aparna Pallavi and Archita Bhatta From what to sow to when to reap, farmers need weather forecast at every step. It can make or break them The monsoon forecast in May said India would receive good rains this year, and the onset was predicted for the first week of June. Accordingly, farmer Lakshinarain Baghel bought 25,000 kg soybean seeds for his 25 hectares (ha) at Rs 30 a kg. He chose a
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Hottest July in 40 years for Chennai
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: This July can well be regarded as the hottest July in 40 years, going by the meteorological data recorded in the two observatories
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Temperature change faster in north than in south: IIT Delhi study
Rapid industrialisation over North India has taken its toll on climate. A study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, says the northern part of the country has had a more rapid temperature change compared to the southern part.
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Crisis in the north-east
A weak monsoon looks set to leave northeastern India high and dry. In a striking paradox, the region that boasts the once-wettest Cherrapunji and is nestled among verdant hills faces chronic rain deficiency. Manipur has a deficit of 67 per cent, while Arunachal Pradesh, the least affected, is deficient by 29 per cent.
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Gamble in the monsoons
There have been good crops in years of poor rain Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 28, 2009, 0:04 IST There have been good crops in years of poor rain and huge variations in years which have had similar rain.
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Rain makers
Keep aside your worries about a bad monsoon and turn it into a business opportunity instead, like some of these startups in the cloud seeding business did, says Ashish Agashe
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Met predicts monsoon revival in several areas
The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rainfall will be witnessed in southwest Madhya Pradesh, north-central Maharashtra, north Konkan and south Rajasthan in the next 24 hours. At some places, the rainfall can be extremely heavy crossing the 25-cm mark.
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Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback
Feedbacks involving low-level clouds remain a primary cause of uncertainty in global climate model projections. This issue was addressed by examining changes in low-level clouds over the Northeast Pacific in observations and climate models.