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 serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
In the past decade there has been extensive research into tropical intraseasonal variability, one of the major components of the low frequency variability of the general atmospheric circulation. This paper briefly reviews the state-of-the-art in this research area: the nature of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, its relation to monsoonal and extratropical …
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 of Tropical Meteorology in a recent paper published in the Nature Communications journal said that rapid …
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 Pacific Ocean temperature anomalies are at the highest levels since the El Niño that occurred between …
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 of Geosciences and National ICT Australia (NICTA), the map can be used to plot the planet's …
The study of climate and climate change is hindered by a lack of information on the effect of clouds on the radiation balance of the earth, referred to as the cloud-radiative forcing. Quantitative estimates of the global distributions of cloud-radiative forcing have been obtained from the spaceborne Earth Radiation Budget …
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 demand for marine ecosystem goods and services to match the increasing human population, the pace and scale of environmental …
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 grain-bowl states of Punjab and Haryana on the say. Rainfall in June is almost certain to …
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 …
Recent studies have pointed out an increased warming over the Indian Ocean warm pool (the central-eastern Indian Ocean characterized by sea surface temperatures greater than 28.08C) during the past half-century, although the reasons behind this monotonous warming are still debated. The results here reveal a larger picture—namely, that the western …
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 Indian scientist said on Tuesday. An international team of researchers led by Dr Roxy Mathew …
The national government did not carry out an environmental impact assessment before dredging sand in the Indian Ocean at the South Coast, a lobby has said. The Community Organisation for Nature Conservation said the government did not adhere to international laws of nature conservation. Last year, the government was criticised …
Dr Suryachandra Rao, Associate Mission Director, Monsoon Mission, at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), explains a key atmosphere-ocean phenomenon. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD)? It is an atmosphere-ocean coupled phenomenon in the tropical Indian Ocean (like the El Nino is in the tropical Pacific), characterised by …
Private forecasters are counting on temperature changes in the Indian Ocean to strengthen the monsoon current like it did in 1997, when rainfall was normal, despite a strong El Nino. While forecasters are divided about the monsoon outlook, experts say that India has become less vulnerable to monsoon rain as …
The weather office revised its southwest monsoon forecast to 88 per cent of average rainfall with the El Nino effect apparently having taken hold, presenting the Narendra Modi government with a challenge in case the prediction comes true. The new estimate is lower than the 93 per cent forecast by …
Monsoon watchers are scanning the Indian Ocean for any sign that could potentially reduce the impact on seasonal rains from a raging El Nino away in the equatorial Pacific. A few models have suggested that the Indian Ocean may be priming for a positive dipole event which can save the …
The monsoon is likely to arrive in Kerala on May 30 -as predicted by India Meteorological Department -but it may be weak because of El Nino's impact, IMD scientists have indicated. Experts from Skymet, a private weather agency , too said the monsoon's first surge over Kerala would be mild …
Prospects are firming that the latest El Nino event may leave much of Australia drier, with conditions in the Indian Ocean possibly reinforcing those in the Pacific, the Bureau of Meteorology says. In its fortnightly update, the bureau said the El Nino continues to strengthen in the tropical Pacific and …
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances - the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic oceans - been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on agriculture? Is this normal? Or has weird weather become the new definition of normal? The India Meteorological Department …
The world’s oceans are playing a game of hot potato with the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have zeroed in on the tropical Pacific as a major player in taking up that heat. But while it might have held that heat for a bit, new research shows …
The monsoon is likely to hit India two days ahead of its normal onset date, the India Meteorological Department announced on Thursday even as the possibility of below-par rainfall grew, with both IMD and US forecasters predicting a greatly increased chance of El Nino conditions persisting through the summer. "The …
