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 …
Delay Not Drastic, Assures IMD Kochi/Pune: After keeping the country and the powersthat-be on tenterhooks, the skies have thrown up a positive sign: the south-west monsoon which should have hit Kerala five days ago will arrive in the next 48 hours, with June 6 being the farther limit. On Sunday, …
Colorado State University researchers on Friday raised their forecast for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to 13 tropical storms, with five hurricanes and two major hurricanes. In April they forecast 10 tropical storms, with four strengthening into hurricanes and two becoming major hurricanes with winds of at least 111 miles …
Advance and accurate forecasts of rainfall can aid many sectors, from agriculture to disaster mitigation. However, given the tremendous spatial variability of rainfall, only forecasts at high resolution can serve users’ needs. The skill of a dynamical forecast model depends on the resolution and varies from region to region. While …
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said the climate models it monitors indicate a possible return of the El Nino weather pattern, often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, in the second half of 2012. The last severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2,000 people and caused billions of dollars …
Bill Read, the top U.S. hurricane forecaster for the last 4-1/2 years, says researchers may be edging closer to finding the "holy grail" of hurricane forecasting. But Read, who steps down as director of the Miami-based National Hurricane Center on June 1, acknowledged in an interview it could be the …
PUNE: Information about air quality at that point of time and weather forecast for the next day will now be available through SMS alerts, web portals and email alerts. Besides, LED or LCD screens will be installed at 10 locations across the city for constant updates. Titled 'System for Air …
Pakistan has been ranked among the top 20 highly vulnerable countries impacted by climate change, sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. According to the Maple Craft Climate Change Vulnerabilities Index, Pakistan has been placed among the ‘high risk’ category of countries impacted by climate change. Another organisation by the name …
India’s Cabinet has given its approval to a “National Monsoon Mission,” which will equip the weather department with high-end computers, radars and scientific manpower to generate more detailed and accurate forecasts. India’s current antiquated methods of forecasting the all-important monsoon rains is getting a re-vamp. No other weather phenomenon generates …
Sriharikota Achieving yet another milestone in its space programme, India on Thursday successfully launched its first indigenous all-weather radar imaging satellite RISAT-1 that will boost its remote sensing capabilities and facilitate agriculture and disaster management. The perfect launch of the satellite catapulted India into a select band of countries having …
IMD, however, cautions that the monsoon may weaken in August-September due to atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific India is expected to have a normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, boosting prospects of good harvests and higher rural incomes. “This year, monsoon as a whole is most likely to …
India today successfully launched its first indigenous day-night and all-weather radar imaging satellite RISAT-1. It is slated to boost country's remote-sensing capabilities and facilitate agriculture and disaster management. Till now, India depended on images from a Canadian satellite as existing domestic remote-sensing spacecraft cannot take pictures of the earth during …
Those tracking kharif paddy, among other scenes, can get a clear picture of it this year, thanks to RISAT-1, the all-weather satellite. The nation's second radar imaging satellite will be put into orbit at dawn on Thursday. Its specialty is the SAR or synthetic aperture radar which can see through …
A consensus outlook for the 2012 southwest monsoon rainfall over South Asia was developed, through an expert assessment of the available indications. The outlook was prepared based on the various prevailing global climate conditions and forecasts from different empirical and dynamical climate models. It is recognized that there is uncertainty …
The country is likely to see normal monsoon this year, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) officials have said, dissipating fears of any drought-like conditions. All indicators point towards a “normal monsoon” just like last year, said a ministry official on Tuesday. There is no adverse atmospheric or oceanic condition that …
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), the US space research center, is keen to carry out research on weather and climate in Bangladesh, the most vulnerable country to climate change. The visiting chief scientist of Earth Science Division of NASA Hal Maring expressed this when she called on Environment and …
New Delhi: It’s early days yet, but the first indications from within the country about this year’s monsoon are positive. A new climate model being developed under the government’s ambitious Monsoon Mission project has predicted above average rainfall for the season. The model, still being refined, is based on modern …
India Meteorological Department has implemented district level medium range rainfall forecast system applying multimodel ensemble technique, making use of model outputs of state-of-the-art global models from the five leading global NWP centres.
Regional Climate Model of version 3 (RegCM3) was driven with Emissions Scenarios A2 of ECHAM4 at 0.54°×0.54° horizontal grid resolution in two parameterizations: Grell scheme with Arakawa–Schubert (GAS) and Fritch–Chappell (GFC) assumptions. The simulated rainfall and mean surface air temperature were calibrated and validated against ground-based observed data in Bangladesh …
North Korea gave details for the first time of a "weather satellite" it plans to send into orbit next month, a launch the West sees as a disguised ballistic missile test which has prompted criticism from the reclusive state's only major ally, China. The North's KCNA news agency described it …
JAMMU : Pointing out that 70 to 80 percent of population is engaged in agriculture and allied sectors but 100 percent of population is dependent on agricultural produce, Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today informed the House that to make the sector more profitable a new policy for the …
