This joint WFP and Action Against Hunger publication presents the impacts of El Niño in LAC, highlighting the emergency response and resilience activities taken to mitigate the effect of climate shocks in the region. The publication underscores the significance of adequate anticipation, preparedness, and response to climate emergencies in LAC. …
Shortfall unlikely to stoke inflation in foodgrains; rice acreage made up Bangalore September 30: The South-West Monsoon, lifeline of country’s agriculture, has ended with a shortfall of around 12 per cent for the year. The four-month monsoon season ended officially on Tuesday with the country receiving a total rainfall of …
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This review describes an international network of 59 long-term forest dynamics research sites (CTFS-ForestGEO) useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. Within very …
The evidence for anthropogenic climate change continues to strengthen, and concerns about severe weather events are increasing. As a result, scientific interest is rapidly shifting from detection and attribution of global climate change to prediction of its impacts at the regional scale. However, nearly everything we have any confidence in …
August 2014 was marginally the warmest August worldwide since records began 130 years ago, according to new data from Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Temperatures measured by government meteorological offices using land, sea and satellite data suggest this year’s global high was very close to those of 2011, 2008, …
Last month was the hottest August on record globally, adding to a run of months with exceptionally warm conditions. According to US space agency NASA, worldwide land and sea-surface temperatures were 0.7 degrees above the 1951-80 baseline average - edging ahead of the previous high set in 2011 - as …
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 …
FORECAST Indian meteorologists say it was unlikely to make a huge impact on the Indian weather The Australian Met department, in its latest outlook of El Nino, has said that there’s a 50% chance of the weather pattern developing in the next few months. “The majority of international climate models …
The chances that humans are not responsible for the rise in average temperatures are less than 1 in 100,000. What are the chances the world could clock up 353 consecutive months with average temperatures higher than the norm of the 20th century without humans being responsible? CSIRO's now-defunct climate adaptation …
The Indian summer monsoons of 2013 and 2014 had contrasting onset and progression phases. The onset was timely and the progression of 2013 monsoon was the fastest in the last 70 years, whereas 2014 had a delayed onset and a very lethargic progression phase compared to 2013. The initial monsoon …
The momentum of global warming caused by the build-up of greenhouse gases is likely to overwhelm natural cooling processes within decades, according to research by the University of NSW. Global temperatures have largely plateaued during the past 15 years as natural variability – including oceans absorbing more heat and volcanic …
Global warming has been temporarily 'paused' according to a group of scientists, who attribute this interlude to climate fluctuations and a more restrained sun. Researchers at ETH Zurich have explained the two reasons behind the warming hiatus in their study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. …
When a scorching drought struck eastern Australia in 2006, cattle farmers Robyn and Paul Kendal had to slaughter nearly all their livestock and spend around a year of their normal turnover on feed to keep the remainder alive. With a recurrence of El Nino, the weather pattern behind the drought, …
Factors involved in the recent pause in the rise of global mean temperatures are examined seasonally. For 1999 to 2012, the hiatus in surface warming is mainly evident in the central and eastern Pacific. It is manifested as strong anomalous easterly trade winds, distinctive sea-level pressure patterns, and large rainfall …
An El Nino remains a possibility in 2014 after renewed signs of the weather event were detected in the Pacific, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The normally easterly trade winds have weakened in the past two weeks and temperatures are again picking up in a broad region of the …
Japan's weather bureau said on Monday it sees less chance of an El Nino weather pattern forming later this year than it previously forecast. In a monthly online bulletin, the Japan Meteorological Agency said it sees a 50 percent chance of an El Nino, which is often linked to heavy …
The odds of an El Nino forming in the equatorial Pacific have fallen to about 65 percent through the end of the year, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said. Computer forecast models delay the onset of the El Nino, a warming of sea surface temperatures and corresponding atmospheric changes, said …
Understanding the response of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming requires quantitative data on ENSO under different climate regimes. Here, we present a reconstruction of ENSO in the eastern tropical Pacific spanning the last 10 thousand years (ka) derived from oxygen isotopes in fossil mollusk shells from Peru. …
This is an advisory note on the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into sustainable development, as part of the science and policy knowledge series. The advisory note 'El Niño 2014/2015: Policy implications for Asia and the Pacific' provides a 14 page overview of El Niño, its …
El Nino conditions are easing in the central and eastern tropical Pacific in the latest available indications that the Indian monsoon might just be able to shrug off its feared adverse impact on seasonal rains. The ocean waters in the ‘suspect area’ in the Pacific have cooled over the last …
Experts Foresee A Mild El Nino Later This Year The biggest threat to this year’s monsoon seems to have receded. El Nino conditions building up in the Pacific have eased in the past month, prompting the Australian weather bureau to withdraw its El Nino ‘alert’ on Tuesday. The bureau downgraded …
