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. …
Bloomberg SINGAPORE RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said. Drier-than-normal weather has affected rice crops in Myanmar, Thailand, northern Philippines …
A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.
Vinson Kurian Japanese researchers have indicated the possibility of La Nina, the alter ego of monsoon-buster El Nino, to unfold over the equatorial Pacific later this year. La Nina, which represents shift of warmer sea-surface temperatures to the west equatorial Pacific, has generally coincided with a normal Indian monsoon, though …
The 2009 southwest monsoon recorded the third highest deficient all India southwest monsoon season rainfall (-22% of LPA) during the period 1901-2009. All the monsoon months except July recorded large deficient rainfall. Region wise, except south Peninsula, all other homogeneous regions recorded much below normal rainfall. Activity of depression was …
2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, a new NASA analysis of global surface temperature shows. The analysis, conducted by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, also shows that in the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year since modern …
HARDEV SANOTRA The world's weatherman tells us that this year had been the fifth warmest since 1850 and the decade has been the hottest on record. The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released its annual data earlier at the UN climate conference which shows that the combined sea and land …
After an early onset over Kerala on 23 May 2009, further advance of the monsoon over the Indian region was delayed by about two weeks with the monsoon restricted to the west coast and southern peninsula until 24 June. This resulted in a massive deficit in the all-India rainfall of …
In this review article, the authors have examined the skill of the state-of-the-art coupled ocean-atmosphere models in simulating the twentieth century mean climate of the Indian monsoon. Assessment of the skill and systematic biases of the climate models is very important for interpreting and assessing the future climate change projections …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The much-awaited northeast monsoon, the usual date of onset of which is October 20, is likely to break over Tamil Nadu in a day or two. Deputy Director-General of Meteorology Y.E.A. Raj told The?Hindu on Monday that going by the output of dynamical models, the onset was …
Patterns of sea-surface warming and cooling in the tropical Pacific seem to be changing, as do the associated atmospheric effects. Increased global warming is implicated in these shifts in El Ni
More than half a dozen oceanographic buoys are missing in action in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has dispatched a ship to fix the malfunctioning buoys, which are part of the 55-strong Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array that monitors the ocean and atmosphere.
A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of valuable farmland topsoil. The dust blacked out the outback town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing a zinc mine to shut down, and swept 1,167 km …
A dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness and stripping thousands of tonnes of topsoil off Australia's main farmlands. Following are answers to questions about the storm. WHAT CAUSED THE DUST STORM? During winter in …
Vinson Kurian Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 15 Research conducted at Texas A&M; University has sought to link the 1918 El Nino, among the strongest in history, and the flu pandemic that year. The El Nino of 1918 coincided with one of the worst droughts in India, according to Prof Benjamin Giese, lead …
Temperature reconstructions for the surface of the Northern Hemisphere are based largely on terrestrial records from extra-tropical or high-elevation sites, despite the fact that global average surface temperature changes closely follow those of the global tropics, which are 75 per cent ocean. Here, a decadally resolved continuous sea surface temperature …
Indonesia appeared to bat away offers from other Southeast Asian countries to help stop haze pollution on Wednesday, leaving the region facing worsening skies as a result of a brewing El Nino weather pattern. Worried about the potential impact, environment ministers of the region met on Wednesday in Singapore to …
