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 …
The U.S. space agency on Friday launched a first-of-its kind satellite that will send back data on weather and climate to help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment. “Liftoff of the Delta II with the NPP satellite, blazing the way in new technology for climate research …
It will provide simultaneous data on humidity, rainfall, water vapour, temperature The Megha-Tropiques satellite is designed to study clouds in the tropical regions of the world that play a major role in climate change, said Roddam Narasimha, Member, Space Commission, on Wednesday at Sriharikota. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) …
India's maiden satellite mission to decode monsoon and climate changes was launched today when its polar rocket successfully put an Indo-French satellite into orbit that also proved its reliability for the 19th time in a row. Blasting off in clear weather from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, Isro's workhorse …
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s workhorse rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18), triumphed once again when it successfully put four satellites in orbit this morning. The satellites are: Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French satellite to study weather and climate in the tropical region of the world; SRMSat, built by students of SRM …
India has come to expect nothing but success of the PSLV rocket, and the country was not disappointed. Today, the old workhorse accomplished its mission flawlessly, from its lift-off into the cloudy skies over the Sriharikota satellite launch centre at 11.01 am and, between 22 and 25 minutes after that, …
It was conceived as a scientific satellite experiment of India and France in the late 1990s. Megha-Tropiques, scheduled to fly out of Sriharikota on Wednesday, finds itself at the forefront of global tropical climate and cloud study. In a month's time, once it starts looking down from a distance 800 …
Over two dozen countries, including Pakistan, will take part next week in a full-scale test of the Indian Ocean`s tsunami alert system, using the 2004 Sumatra quake as the basis for the exercise, Unesco said on Thursday. Exercise IOWAVE 11 will re-enact the seismic events of Dec 26, 2004, simulating …
It will be launched from Sriharikota on October 12; two satellites built by students Preparations are on for the lift-off of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) from the spaceport at Sriharikota at 11 a.m. on October 12. Global tropical weather The rocket will put four satellites in the orbit: …
The northeast (NE) monsoon season (October, November and December) is the major period of rainfall activity over south peninsular India. This study is mainly focused on the prediction of northeast monsoon rainfall using lead-1 products (forecasts for the season issued in beginning of September) of seven general circulation models (GCMs). …
Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today urged the residents of low-lying areas to move to safer places in view of the forecast of heavy rains and release of water from DVC and Chandil barrages. The chief secretary, Mr Samar Ghosh, too, will hold deliberations with irrigation secretaries of Orissa and …
The deadly May 22 tornado in Joplin, Missouri caught many residents unprepared, partly because warnings issued that day were met with complacency and confusion, a federal report said on Tuesday. "The vast majority of Joplin residents did not immediately take protective action upon receiving a first indication of risk, regardless …
On many occasions monsoons have failed leading to droughts, but IMD did not predict them. Why? Our predictions for rainfall during droughts were wrong only in 2002 and 2004. Between 1988 and 2001, our forecast for normal monsoon was qualitatively correct. It is true that we were not correct on …
Computer simulations of the weather workings of the entire planet will be able to make forecasts to within a few kilometers accuracy, helping predict the effects of deadly weather systems. But the world may have to wait 20 to 40 years' for such accurate information on weather events like El …
La Nina, a weather phenomenon typically linked to flooding in the Asia-Pacific, African drought and a more intense hurricane season over the Atlantic, could occur in a weak form this year, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday. A borderline La Nina situation has developed in recent weeks in the tropical …
This paper reports on the availability, use and information seeking behaviour of a farming community with specific reference to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It fills a research gap by examining what people do with a medium when they have access to it, rather than looking at barriers surrounding the …
Decomposition of monsoon rainfall time series into mutually uncorrelated intrinsic mode functions (IMF) has distinct advantages in empirical forecasting of rainfall quantity ahead of the season. The attractive feature of this approach is its ability to separate out the nonlinear (non-Gaussian) and the linear (Gaussian) parts of the data as …
Madhya Pradesh is experiencing heavy rainfall. The Relief Commissioner has issued directives to all the collectors, especially in sensitive areas, to be on the alert for dealing with any worst-case scenario that could result in due to heavy rainfall in their respective districts. Around 20 families have been taken to …
The Climate Prediction Centre (CPC) of the US National Weather Services has officially switched its El Nino-La Nina alert system status to a ‘La Nina watch.' La Nina refers to the cooling of equatorial Pacific Ocean and shifts the warming pool of waters and storminess to the west, which has …
