Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding ozone pollution across urban India, 21/03/2025

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 …

An uncertain monsoon

There is as yet no serious damage to kharif prospects. With the monsoon having revived after a nearly two-week hiatus, the worry about an inordinate hold-up in crop planting has faded

Monsoon gets moving again, to hit Mumbai in 2-3 days

Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 20, 2009, 0:04 IST The prolonged break in the rainy season that has caused widespread concern over the delay in kharif sowing is finally ending with the monsoon likely to advance into Mumbai and adjoining parts of Maharashtra in two or three days. Conditions …

Particulate absorption of solar radiation: anthropogenic aerosols vs. dust

Particulate solar absorption is a critical factor in determining the value and even sign of the direct radiative forcing of aerosols. The heating to the atmosphere and cooling to the Earth's surface caused by this absorption are hypothesized to have significant climate impacts. We find that anthropogenic aerosols play an …

Monsoon likely to be delayed

New Delhi: Temperatures are expected to soar over the next few days in Delhi and other parts of the country with the movement of monsoon clouds towards north and northwest India taking a pause. Delhi could again see 40-plus temperatures over the next couple of days though occasional thundershowers could …

Monsoon may hit city by Saturday: IMD

Mumbai There are chances of rains in Mumbai by the weekend, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday. If the southwest monsoon arrives by the weekend, it would be 10 days after its normal arrival. K Sathidevi, director IMD, said that the IMD is pinning its hopes on some …

More delay in rains

New Delhi: There is further trouble on the monsoon front. The northward advance of the monsoon is likely to be held up by another week leading to a delay in the sowing of Kharif crops in most of central and north peninsular India. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday …

Monsoon delay may impact kharif plans

BHUBANESWAR: With monsoon playing truant and there is no sign of its revival in the next one week, kharif operations, particularly direct sown paddy in up-land and medium land, will be considerably delayed. As majority of the cultivable area is rainfed, delay in the onset of monsoon will upset the …

Automatic weather monitor on cards

SANTOSH K. KIRO Ranchi, June 9: It is rise of the machines to predict the unpredictable. Three months from now, the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) will have in place as many as 20 automatic weather stations (AWS) to collate data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction in all …

Goa records 156 mm rainfall in 24 hrs

The State has received 156.6 mm rainfall in last 24 hrs, the Indian Meteorological department officials said today. The officials said that the seasonal total so far has been 235.1 mm.

6 Automatic Climate Centre units installed in Kodagu

A total of six Automatic Climate Centre (ACC) units of the Indian Space Reseach Organisation (ISRO) have been installed at various place in the district. ISRO has plans to install 15 ACCs in the district to provide climatic information to coffee growers. ACCs are installed at Madapura Durgadevi Estate, Kodagu …

Cloud seeding proposal turned down

June 7: The finance department spiked the agriculture minister, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy

Plant indicates heavy showers

June 3: The wild plant, Mungari Molaka, has blossomed with 21 flowers this season. The rare occurrence presages a strong monsoon, according to some botanists.

Satellite-based analysis of the role of land use/land cover and vegetation density on surface temperature regime of Delhi, India

The knowledge of the surface temperature is important to a range of issues and themese in earth sciences central to urban climatology, global environmental change and human-environment interactions. The study analyses land surface temperature (LST) estimation using temporal ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Themrmal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) datasets over National Capital …

HAM radio may soon bring warning on heavy rain

MUMBAI: This monsoon, Mumbaikars might get early warnings of heavy-rain days or passing cyclones, with the meteorological bureau networking with HAM operators in the city. "Whenever disasters have struck in the past, communication has been one of the major casualties,'' said Sudhir Shah, a HAM operator. HAM radio operators get …

Expect delayed monsoon, say IMD officials

Mumbai The current hot and sultry weather of Mumbai is here to stay, at least for a while, with no monsoon activity at sight on the western coast, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The maximum temperature in Mumbai hovered around 35.5

Monsoon earlyburly

Central, northern India have a new date with the rains april, May and early June may be the future monsoon months of north and central India. As of now, the official date for the beginning of monsoons is June 29. But there has been a clear increase in rainfall in …

Earth's protective shield is stealing our air

The magnetosphere, long seen as our benign protector from the sun, may actually be focusing energy into the poles and aiding atmospheric loss.

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