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 …
Pune In a bid to address improvements needed in weather and climate forecasts with the help of South Asian countries, the South Asian Climate outlook Forum (SASCOF) commenced its first meeting on Tuesday at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology here. The meet , which will conclude on Thursday, will …
In the polar tropospheric boundary layer, reactive halogen species (RHS) are responsible for ozone depletion as well as the oxidation of elemental mercury and dimethyl sulphide. After polar sunrise, air masses enriched in reactive bromine cover areas of several million square kilometers. Still, the source and release mechanisms of halogens …
Ahmedabad First South Asian Climate Outlook Forum in city today Last year, the monsoon forecast was 22 per cent off the mark. This year, however, even before the monsoon forecast for this month, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is set to do forecasting for the entire South Asia region, for …
R. Ramachandran New Delhi: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has proposed a National Mission on monsoon towards developing reliable dynamic models for forecasting the monsoon over the next three to five-year period through a multi-institutional effort. Though the focus will chiefly be on seasonal forecast, the mission will include …
Shweta Kamat PANJIM, APRIL 12 The extent of the much feared ozone depletion over Goa will now be known to researchers through a facility planned to come up at Vasco. Goa is one amongst the 20 stations, where the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune will spearhead the country
Asian pollution is a global problem. Millions of tonnes of soot, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants are fast-tracked into the stratosphere each year by the summer monsoon. "The monsoon is one of the most powerful atmospheric circulation systems on the planet, and it happens to form right over a heavily …
New Delhi: During the course of last month, many Delhiites swore they had never experienced such high temperatures in the capital this time of the year. They were absolutely right. March this year was the second warmest in Delhi since systematic records began in 1901, the Met department said on …
Mumbai An Indian-made Doppler radar designed for real time weather prediction, a need felt during the 2005 deluge, is headed for the city, with weather officials optimistic it will be in place before this year
Eswar Singh K R Mysore, Mar 25, DHNS As one more World Meteorological Day passes without fanfare early this week, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Bangalore is quietly on the path of updating and modernisation. The IMD Bangalore is all set for a makeover installing automatic weather stations in every …
Noting that the decade 2000-2009 was warmest ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that 2009 was the fifth-warmest year since climate records began in 1850. In a report on its 60th anniversary, the UN weather agency said the nineties were warmer than the eighties.The report showed that …
The city recorded an all-time high of 40.6 degrees Celsius on March 31, 1945 The city on Sunday recorded the hottest day of March in the past six years with the temperature shooting up to 39.2 degrees Celsius, as per the meteorological department.
Vinson Kurian India would have good summer monsoon this year is the unambiguous forecast statement coming in latest from the Tokyo-based Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC). This is based on the premise that the current El Nino with major warming in the central Pacific would end soon in the …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: As yet another World Water Day passes by, the drying wells, vanishing waterbodies and the decrease in rainfall catches the attention of environmentalists and scientists alike. While the former is exhorting the public and the powers that be of the dangers of a water crisis, the latter …
THE country will likely experience a normal monsoon this crop year, agriculture secretary PK Basu said here on Friday, raising hopes of a recovery in farm output which was hit by the worst drought in 37 years last season. The government
EL NINO UNLIKELY TO RECUR; DELAY IN THE ONSET OF SOUTHWEST MONSOON LIKLEY The El Nino condition had started to weaken by November and December, and we expect it to neutral in the next few months.
As the country saw drought-like situation in most regions and recorded 22 per cent less than normal rainfall last year, city-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the India Meteorological Department has charted out its cloud seeding programme for the rain shadow regions in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka …
On 1 April 1960, the world's first weather satellite, the Television Infrared Observation Satellite 1 (TIROS 1), was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into a 99-min orbit at an altitude of about 725 km. The cylindrical (1.1-m diameter, 0.48-m tall), 120-kg spacecraft was spin-stabilized, rotating between 8 and 12 times …
A new generation of sophisticated Earth models is gearing up for its first major test. But added complexity may lead to greater uncertainty about the future climate.
