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 …
By failing to account for the effects of climate change, long-term projections of extreme weather are providing dangerously inaccurate guidance for critical investments in infrastructure and public safety.
General Circulation Models (GCMs) are tools designed to simulate time series of climate variables globally, accounting for effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They are good at continental and hemispherical spatial scales and incorporate a large proportion of the complexity of the global systems.
Pune Refusing to put the blame on the officers of India Meteorology Department (IMD) for the wide deviation in the prediction of rains, Minister of State for Earth Sciences Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said it would be inappropriate to pull up someone for weather prediction. Chavan visited the IMD, Pune, …
Some worrying incidents of climate change: By 2050, the per capita share of water will reduce from 2290 to 1550 cubic metre per person in India, marking the country with all its water resources as a water scarce country. A thousand miles away from Copenhagen, climate change experts in Delhi …
In an effort to assess the impact of global warming on this Himalayan State, the Sikkim Government has decided to set up 15 meteorological stations to record daily pattern of weather conditions here.
Over three quarters of the people killed - and 95 % of the total affected by natural hazards - since the beginning of the year were due to extreme weather events said Ms. Margareta Wahlstr
This document argues that climate change promises serious negative impacts on agricultural systems. These same systems and the natural resources that support them are already under severe strain from over-exploitation, the current climate, and multiple other stresses. Many of the world
New Delhi: With the minimum temperature falling to 10.7 degrees Celsius for the second time this week, the lowest in the season, Delhiites have formally declared winter. The maximum fell to 24.2 degrees Celsius, four degrees below normal. The Met department said this was due to snowfall in Himachal and …
The IMD overlooked and ignored data on Cyclone Phyan, leading to the loss of almost a hundred lives, says SUJAY GUPTA Disaster is often the distance between a cosy bedtime story and an early morning wake-up call. On the intervening night of December 10 and 11, Goa was on the …
Worried about driving blind on a foggy winter morning? Help will soon be an SMS away. The weatherman has decided to start a service providing point to point information about fog and visibility through cellphone messages. The project will begin in Delhi and then be replicated in other parts of …
The Indian Meteorological Department has sounded a cyclone alert for Gujarat and Maharashtra. A depression over the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify in the coming days and move towards the north and northeast. WINDS AT 75 KMPH PREDICTED A depression over the Arabian sea is likely to intensify in …
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 …
Call to deploy high resolution global, regional climate models. Focus areas The session also felt the need for improving the accuracy of weather forecasting and short-term climate prediction for high impact weather events. Another area that needed focus was the development and implementation of early warning systems for all hydro-meteorological …
The weather has been in the news for all the wrong reasons across India this year. Typically, a 10 per cent shortage over 20 per cent of the country qualifies as a drought, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
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 …
New Delhi: Monday recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 13.5 degrees Celsius in October in the past 10 years, though the day continued to be warm with a maximum temperature of 31 degree Celsius (one degree below normal). Met department officials said the absence of any western disturbances is the …
New Delhi: After its predictions went wrong this year, the weather office is mulling doing away with issuing summer monsoon forecasts and replacing them with weather outlook for every month, a top official on Thursday said. The monsoon forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) went awry this year with …
This document contains the Presentation made by Krishna Kumar, IITM-Pune, to Shri Jairam Ramesh, Hon. Minister of Environment and Forests, on 14 Oct. 2009 in New Delhi. The presentation is focused on the impact of climate change on India
Sample this. For October 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) average rain forecast over Raichur district was 27 mm. However, the district was rainwashed with an unprecedented downpour of 198 mm on that day. Similarly, over Bellary, IMD forecast for October 2 was 68 mm, while the actual incidence recorded …
