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 Environment Ministry and the Japan Meteorological Agency have opened a new website to jointly publicize yellow sand information. The ministry and the agency had previously posted yellow sand information on separate websites, making data access by Web visitors less user friendly. Data provided by the weather agency for the …
"Politicians seem to think that the science is a done deal," says Tim Palmer. "I don't want to undermine the IPCC, but the forecasts, especially for regional climate change, are immensely uncertain." Palmer is a leading climate modeller at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, and …
A new paper shows that regional and even global temperatures are being temporarily held down by a natural jostling of the climate system, driven in large part by vacillating ocean currents.
The climate of the North Atlantic region exhibits fluctuations on decadal timescales that have large societal consequences. Prominent examples include hurricane activity in the Atlantic, and surface-temperature and rainfall variations over North America, Europe and northern Africa. Although these multidecadal variations are potentially predictable if the current state of the …
The effects of global warming over the coming decades will be modified by shorter-term climate variability. Finding ways to incorporate these variations will give us a better grip on what kind of climate change to expect.
Extreme rainfall events today pose a serious threat to many populated and urbanized areas worldwide. An accurate estimate of frequency and distribution of these events can significantly aid in policy planning and observation system design. We report here a highresolution (10 km) analysis of heavy rainfall episodes (defined as 24-h …
People across the UK were left sniffing the air in disgust on Friday after strong easterly winds spread unpleasant farming or industrial smells from the continent. The Met Office said it had received reports of the pong - dubbed Euro-whiff - from a wide area across south east England stretching …
For the India Meteorological Department (IMD), it has been an annual ritual for the past 20 years to issue its long-range monsoon forecast around this time of the year, though the credibility of these predictions has been on the wane. The projection that the rainfall during this year's monsoon season …
Facing all-round flak on galloping inflation, the government on Wednesday tried to wash away some of its worries by predicting a "near-normal' south-west monsoon for the year, suggesting that increased farm production could be expected. A good measure of the attack hurled on the government by allies and opponents has …
The south west monsoon, crucial to agriculture, is likely to be near normal this year, the Meteorological Department has forecast amid hopes that good summer rains would lead to an easing in the price situation. "India Meteorological Department's long-range forecast for the 2008 southwest monsoon season (June-September) is that rainfall …
Olympics - Beijing Seeds Clouds To Protect Opening Ceremony CHINA: April 11, 2008 BEIJING - More than 100 people and three aircraft will be on standby at the Beijing Olympics to manipulate the weather if storms threaten the opening ceremony. Staff at 21 locations around the capital will fire rockets …
Forecaster Expects Eight Atlantic Hurricanes This Year US: April 10, 2008 MIAMI - The noted Colorado State University hurricane research team predicted on Wednesday that 15 tropical storms would form during the coming Atlantic storm season, of which eight would strengthen into hurricanes. The team founded by forecasting pioneer Bill …
Expect A Warmer Summer -- But No Floods UK: April 4, 2008 LONDON - This summer is expected to be warmer and perhaps slightly wetter than average but with little chance of a repeat of last year's devastating floods, the Met Office said on Thursday. "It looks like being a …
London: Forget Jaws. Sharks can save lives too by giving early warning of storms. Researchers in Britain have carried out a study and found that the fearsome predators can sense minute changes in air pressure
More than 300 Melburnians have fainted, collapsed or suffered heat stress since Melbourne's autumn heatwave hit four days ago. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a top of 39 degrees in the city today. At 1.48pm this afternoon, the temperature peaked to 37.3 degrees, after a low of 20.9 degrees …
We have all heard tales of frogs, toads and fish raining from the heavens: these are rare events triggered by freak weather. But there are land and water-based life forms that seem to be present in the atmosphere just about all the time. These include algae, fungi and bacteria. What …
The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the past year: snow in Johannesburg last June and in Baghdad in January, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance after a record retreat last summer, paralyzing blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the globe's average …
One of the biggest challenges in climate research is to arrive at reliable future projections. However, while there now exists a firm scientific basis and procedure for climate forecasts, numerical climate models still suffer from large uncertainties.
Investments aimed at improving agricultural adaptation to climate change inevitably favor some crops and regions over others. An analysis of climate risks for crops in 12 food-insecure regions was conducted to identify adaptation priorities, based on statistical crop models and climate projections for 2030 from 20 general circulation models.
