Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Increasing amount of soot, sulphates and other aerosol components in atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are causing major threats to the water and food security of Asia and have resulted in surface dimming, atmospheric solar heating and soot deposition in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan-Tibetan (HKHT) glaciers and snow packs. These have given …
IMD's long range forecast for the seasonal rainfall over the country as a whole and over different homogenous regions except northwest India have been accurate. However, the seasonal rainfall over northwest India and rainfall during July for the country as a whole have not been accurate. While the prediction overestimated …
Goa minister wants a shift in the period of monsoon ban on fishing GOA"s fisheries minister Joaquim Alemao wants to advance the monsoon ban on fishing by 15 days, from the June 16-July 31 period to June 1-July 15. He said the second half of July, when the ban is …
KOCHI: The ocean surface temperature in the Arabian sea and the Bay of Bengal was a half degree warmer than the temperatures expected at this time of the year. It could be one of the reasons for the heavy spell caused by the North-East monsoon in the state.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: So far, four lives have been lost and 697.13 acres of farm land affected ever since the North- East monsoon set in the State, according to the Monsoon Calamities Cell opened here. Two people died each in Malappuram and Palakkad districts on Friday and their bodies had been recovered. …
Higher levels of pollution in Asia may affect the formation of clouds high in the Himalayas, perhaps disrupting monsoons and speeding a thaw of glaciers, according to a study on Monday. The report, by scientists in France and Italy, found microscopic particles in the air that can be seeds for …
Rising air pollution levels in South Asia will have worldwide environmental consequences. Transport of pollutants from the densely populated regions of India, Pakistan, China, and Nepal to the Himalayas may lead to substantial radiative forcing in South Asia with potential effects on the monsoon circulation and, hence, on regional climate …
The processes that control climate in the tropics are poorly understood. We applied compound-specific hydrogen isotopes (D) and the TEX86 (tetraether index of 86 carbon atoms) temperature proxy to sediment cores from Lake Tanganyika to independently reconstruct precipitation and temperature variations during the past 60,000 years. Tanganyika temperatures follow Northern …
A considerable amount of research has focused on how and when the Tibetan plateau formed in the wake of tectonic convergence between India and Asia1. Although far less enquiry has addressed the controls on river incision into the plateau itself, widely accepted theory predicts that steep fluvial knick points (river …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 2008 edition of the South-West monsoon was weak over Kerala with 22 percent less rainfall than normal. The State received only 168 cm of rain from June to September, against the normal 214 cm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. District-wise, the southwest monsoon was deficient in all …
New Delhi, October 3 With the monsoon withdrawing from most regions in the country, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said the cumulative seasonal rainfall during June 1 to September 30 was near normal, recording 98 per cent of its long period average (LPA).
Business Standard / New Delhi October 03, 2008, 0:19 IST Of all the major global weather systems, the Indian monsoon has a coveted record of seldom failing completely. Even during the worst drought years, some areas of the country have got copious showers. But, at the same time, the reverse …
Agriculture in India depends heavily on weather and climate conditions. Weather forecasts are useful for decisions regarding crop choice, crop variety, planting/harvesting dates, and investments in farm inputs such as irrigation, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide etc. Hence, improved weather forecast based agromet advisory service greatly helps farmers to take advantage of …
Performance of four mesoscale models namely, the MM5, ETA, RSM and WRF, run at NCMRWF for short range weather forecasting has been examined during monsoon-2006. Evaluation is carried out based upon comparisons between observations and day-1 and day-3 forecasts of wind, temperature, specific humidity, geopotential height, rainfall, systematic errors, root …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 30, 2008, 0:56 ISTAfter normal rains in most parts except western Madhya Pradesh and some north-eastern hill states, the monsoon began withdrawing from north-west India on Monday.This is the second most belated withdrawal of the monsoon since 1960. Last year had seen a record …
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rainfall in the last two days have killed over two dozen people in far-western districts. In Kailali district, at least 15 people have been killed and twenty-five Village Development Committees (VDCs) inundated due to flood in Mohana River. Nearly a dozen flood and …
In this study, using 104 years (1901–2004) of high resolution daily gridded rainfall data, variability and long-term trends of extreme rainfall events over central India have been examined. Frequency of extreme rainfall events shows significant inter-annual and inter-decadal variations in addition to a statistically significant long term trend of 6% …
