Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled “CSE report finds dangerous increase in ozone pollution across urban India” appearing in Down to Earth dated 06.08.2024. The Principal Bench of the NGT heard the matter on March 21, 2025. In the original application, registered suo …
India’s Cabinet has given its approval to a “National Monsoon Mission,” which will equip the weather department with high-end computers, radars and scientific manpower to generate more detailed and accurate forecasts. India’s current antiquated methods of forecasting the all-important monsoon rains is getting a re-vamp. No other weather phenomenon generates …
IMD, however, cautions that the monsoon may weaken in August-September due to atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific India is expected to have a normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, boosting prospects of good harvests and higher rural incomes. “This year, monsoon as a whole is most likely to …
India today successfully launched its first indigenous day-night and all-weather radar imaging satellite RISAT-1. It is slated to boost country's remote-sensing capabilities and facilitate agriculture and disaster management. Till now, India depended on images from a Canadian satellite as existing domestic remote-sensing spacecraft cannot take pictures of the earth during …
SRIHARIKOTA (ANDHRA PRADESH): India's first indigenous all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1), whose images will facilitate agriculture and disaster management, was on Thursday launched successfully on board the PSLV-C19 from here. The 1,858 kg spacecraft, the country's first microwave remote sensing satellite, was injected into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch …
SRIHARIKOTA (ANDHRA PRADESH): India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) - successfully, a top official said Thursday. Speaking to reporters after the successful launch of indigenously built Radar …
India seemed headed for the third straight year of good monsoon with normal rainfall being predicted for the upcoming June-September season. The Met department will announce on Thursday the preliminary forecast for the four-month season that accounts for almost 90 per cent of India’s annual rainfall. Many scientists believe that …
Those tracking kharif paddy, among other scenes, can get a clear picture of it this year, thanks to RISAT-1, the all-weather satellite. The nation's second radar imaging satellite will be put into orbit at dawn on Thursday. Its specialty is the SAR or synthetic aperture radar which can see through …
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A consensus outlook for the 2012 southwest monsoon rainfall over South Asia was developed, through an expert assessment of the available indications. The outlook was prepared based on the various prevailing global climate conditions and forecasts from different empirical and dynamical climate models. It is recognized that there is uncertainty …
The country is likely to see normal monsoon this year, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) officials have said, dissipating fears of any drought-like conditions. All indicators point towards a “normal monsoon” just like last year, said a ministry official on Tuesday. There is no adverse atmospheric or oceanic condition that …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has maintained records of weather and climate since the late 1800s. According to these records, the month of March, 2012 has set a new record as the warmest March ever for the contiguous United States. Across the nation, 15,000 local warm temperature records …
Cosmic dust that fills space could be playing a part in climate change, scientists say. A study is now trying to ascertain how much of this dust enters the Earth's atmosphere - in a bid to find out how it might affect our climate. Far from being empty, space is …
New Delhi: It’s early days yet, but the first indications from within the country about this year’s monsoon are positive. A new climate model being developed under the government’s ambitious Monsoon Mission project has predicted above average rainfall for the season. The model, still being refined, is based on modern …
Time series analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from NOAA-AVHRR data during the period 1996–1999 and the MODIS data during 2000–2009 over the Arabian Sea revealed a systematic biennial variability in the high AOD during summer months. The variability is more prominent over the northern and central parts of …
India Meteorological Department has implemented district level medium range rainfall forecast system applying multimodel ensemble technique, making use of model outputs of state-of-the-art global models from the five leading global NWP centres.
Data on surface ozone concentration compiled for a 10-year period from 1990 to 1999 for Pune and Delhi are analyzed in terms of its frequency distribution, annual trend, diurnal variation and its relation with various meteorological and chemical parameters. It is found that the surface ozone concentration range showing highest …
North Korea gave details for the first time of a "weather satellite" it plans to send into orbit next month, a launch the West sees as a disguised ballistic missile test which has prompted criticism from the reclusive state's only major ally, China. The North's KCNA news agency described it …
The Montreal Protocol led to a global phase-out of most substances that deplete the ozone layer, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). A happy side-effect of the gradual ban of these products is that the Earth’s climate has also benefited because CFCs are also potent greenhouse gases. However, now a "rebound effect" …
These Cosmic Bodies Don’t Orbit Any Star, Belong To A Whole New Class Of Alien World Washington: Thousands of rogue alien planets may be rambling through space in our Milky Way galaxy, instead of being locked in orbit around a star, says a new study. According to researchers at the …
An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water — literally, American scientists say. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said they have identified an entirely new kind of planet, dominated not by rock, gas or other common materials, but water. The planet is …
