The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
Pacific Ocean temperatures have eased in recent weeks and an El Nino weather event later this year is now indicated by only a slight majority of climate models, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday. "While the chance of an El Nino in 2014 has clearly eased, warmer-than-average waters …
The U.S. weather forecaster maintained its outlook for the El Nino weather phenomenon in its monthly update on Thursday, pegging the chances of the weather pattern striking during the Northern Hemisphere summer at 70 percent. The Climate Prediction Center, an agency of the National Weather Service, said there was close …
Weather-generating models are widely used for studying the climate change over longer periods. LARS-WG model was evaluated for southern Telangana region (Hayathnagar, Yacharam and Rajendranagar). A 30 year base weather data (1980-2010) was used to generate the long-term weather series from 2011 to 2060.
Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that the possibility of an El Nino pattern forming this summer is lower than previously forecast, but it sees a high chance in autumn. The Japan Meteorological Agency, which said last month that the El Nino phenomenon could emerge this summer and last at …
IBM Corp has signed an agreement with the city of Beijing to use advanced weather forecasting and cloud computing technologies to help tackle the Chinese capital's persistent smog. After a series of pollution scares and scandals, China's central government has promised to reverse some of the damage done to the …
Pakistan's first-ever highest altitude meteorological climate station has been installed at the K2 base camp which has started giving real-time data, said Munir Ahmed, the communication consultant with the Ev-K2-CNR while talking to the media personnel on Wednesday.He said that the highly sophisticated climate station belongs to the integrated SHARE …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation and the district administration have failed to come up with a contingency plan to tackle the imminent water crisis the city is likely to face in the near future. In fact, they are relying on the Indian Meteorological Department's forecast of heavy rains in the …
Australia maintained an El Nino alert as indicators of the event, which can bring drought to the Asia-Pacific region and heavier-than-usual rains to South America, begin to emerge before the pattern develops in coming months. Climate models indicate the weather event is likely to develop by spring, which starts in …
Every year, disasters related to weather, climate and water hazards cause significant loss of life and set back economic and social development by years, if not decades From 1970 to 2012, 8 835 disasters, 1 94 million deaths and US$ 2 4 trillion of economic losses were reported globally as …
Amid gloomy forecast about rain in different parts of the country this year, the farmers of Bihar could derive solace from the good news that the overall rainfall in the state would be 99% of the normal, and almost uniformly spread across all the 38 districts. Already, 97.1mm of average …
With El Nino looming large over monsoon this year, the state government has pulled up its socks to checkmate the phenomenon. It has drawn up an advance plan to lessen its adverse effect on agriculture. This was decided at a meeting chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik here on Tuesday. …
Computer scientists are picking a new fight with old school meteorologists, claiming finally to have cracked the code on weather forecasting at a pivotal, profitable moment for the field, as climate change roils commodities markets and industries. Banks and traders are reporting outsized profits, and losses, on everything from natural …
RAIPUR: As heat-wave continues to grip state capital, three persons died here of heat stroke in last three days with temperature soaring to highest on Sunday to 45.9 degree celsius. Monsoon may have hit Kerala but Raipur, the hottest city in state which was struggling with jaundice deaths, has witnessed …
The paper approaches the question of disconnect between El Nino and Indian droughts by exploring the timing of El Nino developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. The researchers connect an India specific El Nino (ISEL), based on tracking temperature anomalies of three months moving averages for …
The monsoon rainfall in 2014 is likely to be less than the long term average, with a chance of almost one in four of it being a drought, according to the forecast of the India Meteorological Department. The expected occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon – the El Niño over the …
The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology's (IITM) first experimental real-time monsoon forecast for this year predicts delayed monsoon advancement over the country . Scientists said that consequently , the first spell of rainfall will be inadequate and scantier than normal. The scientists said a low pressure system over the Arabian …
The chances have increased over the past month that the much-feared El Nino weather phenomenon, which can wreak havoc on global crops, will strike this year, the federal U.S. forecaster said Thursday. In its monthly report, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, said neutral …
The Australian weather bureau on Tuesday declared an El Nino alert, saying there was at least a 70% chance of occurrence of the weather pattern that’s also linked to weak monsoons in India, with some climate models predicting it could set in as early as July. There’s consensus among international …
A spike in Pacific Ocean sea temperatures and the rapid movement of warm water eastwards have increased concerns that an El Nino pattern this year could be one of the strongest in several decades, an Australian climate scientist said. El Nino — a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific …
