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 …
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) announced discoveries of four sites of crude oil and natural gas in one month after its board meeting on Monday. It said it has notified the director-general of hydrocarbons about the discoveries. Three of the discoveries are onland and the fourth in offshore. The …
In one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the oceans, researchers say that humans have "strongly' fouled 41 per cent of the high seas with everything from storm water runoff to shipping waste and that only small polar regions are still untouched. "Almost half of the oceans are in …
cyclone Gonu has showed up the chinks in India's wind pattern research. The cyclone lashed Oman on June 4, 2007, and delayed monsoon in India by a week. Indian scientists, including the India Meteorological Department (imd), failed to predict the wind disturbance on the Persian Gulf and its effect on …
India mostly gets eastward winds. In summer, a low pressure centre forms over north India and north Southeast Asia when the sun heats up the earth. Cold air from the Arabian Sea replaces the hot air from the region. The easterly wind changes direction due to coriallis force (generated by …
a group of Asian scientists has framed a new plan to set up a comprehensive system to approach the study of changing monsoon patterns in Asia. A piecemeal approach towards the subject so far has led scientists to take this step. The plan, called mairs (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies), …
ON September 22, around 50,000 people gathered at Kharo Chaan, 150 km southeast of Karachi in Pakistan, for quite an unprecedented festival: the Jashn-e-Indus Delta. Politicians and experts paid tributes to the river Indus, diyas (earthen lamps) were floated, a fair number of young men and women even danced in …
The southwest monsoon current in the form of a crossequatorial low level jetstream (LLJ) with its core at an altitude of about 1.5 km and core wind speeds of 80
the decreasing snow cover in Southwest Asia and the Himalaya is threatening marine life in central and western parts of the Arabian Sea, which lie thousands of kilometres (km) away. According to a study published in Science (April 22, Vol 308, No 5721), reduced winter and spring snow cover in …
Marine life in the Arabian Sea might be in grave danger. A Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (modis) image, taken by us space agency nasa on February 22, 2005, shows high chlorophyll concentration in the sea (ribbons and swirls of yellow). This denotes high presence of phytoplankton, tiny ocean plants, near …
The crisis that hit the Karachi port in Pakistan on July 27 has steadily gained catastrophic proportions. Tasman Spirit, the 24-year-old Greek tanker that ran aground off the Karachi coast, was carrying 67,000 tonnes of crude oil at the time of the accident (see:
In this paper, a review on worldwide literature on trends in tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and impact, with special reference to the North Indian Ocean Basin, that is, the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was sponsored by research agencies within Europe, India and USA, and was mainly concerned with the haze over south Asia and the adjacent Indian Ocean. It excluded other equally or even more polluted areas in Asia. The Asian Brown Cloud is a follow on international …
an unknown reservoir of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, has been found within the coastal waters of the Arabian Sea bordering India's west coast. This was discovered by scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. The discovery of the nitrous oxide reserve, commonly known as laughing gas, could …
The operation of a total of 5 research cruises will be undertaken this Department of Ocean Development to study the role of greenhouse gases in changing atmospheric temperature. Oceans and seabeds are known to be good sinks for absorbing greenhouse gases. The Indian team is part of the Joint Global …
THE CYCLONE that struck southern India in October-November 1992 caused unusually extensive damage in Kanniyakumari district. The area was lashed daily by winds of 80 km per hour and 10-15 cm of rain. There were landslides, and major roads, railway tracks, bridges and houses in the district were washed away. …
