Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Monsoon seen normal this yr: Farm secy

THE country will likely experience a normal monsoon this crop year, agriculture secretary PK Basu said here on Friday, raising hopes of a recovery in farm output which was hit by the worst drought in 37 years last season.

Publication Date: 
20/03/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, El Nino, Weather Predictions, Monsoons, India, Rainfall
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Monsoon to be normal this year

EL NINO UNLIKELY TO RECUR; DELAY IN THE ONSET OF SOUTHWEST MONSOON LIKLEY The El Nino condition had started to weaken by November and December, and we expect it to neutral in the next few months.

Publication Date: 
19/03/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
El Nino, Weather Predictions, Monsoons, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), India, Rainfall
Climate Change

Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch

The early Pliocene (5 to 3 million years ago) is the period in the geological past believed to be the closest analogue to contemporary global warming. Palaeoclimate data suggest that there were persistent El Ni

Publication Date: 
26/02/2010
Alexey V. Fedorov, Christopher M. Brierley, Kerry Emanuel
Nature
463
7284
1066
Tags:
El Nino, Climate Change, Climate Science, Cyclones
Climate Change

Tropical cyclones in the mix

What was responsible for the unusual climatic conditions that prevailed
during the early Pliocene, 5 million to 3 million years ago? Modelling studies point to intense tropical-cyclone activity as a possible answer.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2010
Ryan L. Sriver
Nature
463
7284
1032
Tags:
El Nino, Climate Change, Climate Science, Cyclones
Climate Change

Examining Indian monsoon variability in coupled climate model simulations and projections

South Asian summer monsoon (June through September) rainfall simulation and its potential future changes are evaluated in a multi-model ensemble of global coupled climate models outputs under World Climate Research Program Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (WCRP CMIP3) data set.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
Ashwini Kulkarni, R.H. Kripalani, S.S. Sabade
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Tags:
El Nino, Monsoons, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, India, Climate, Rainfall
Air Pollution

Impact of climate fluctuations on deposition of DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane in mountain glaciers: Evidence from ice core records

How do climate fluctuations affect DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) distribution in the global scale? In this study, the interactions between climate variations and depositions of DDT and HCH in ice cores from Mt. Everest (the Tibetan Plateau), Mt. Muztagata (the eastern Pamirs) and the Rocky Mountains were investigated. All data regarding DDT/HCH deposition were obtained from the published results. Concentrations of DDT and HCH in an ice core from Mt. Everest were associated with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Concentrations of DDT in an ice core from Mt.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
Xiaoping Wang, Ping Gong, Qianggong Zhang & et al
Environmental Pollution
158
2
375–380
Tags:
Climate, DDT, Himalaya, Mountains, POPs, Air Pollution, Atmosphere, North Atlantic Ocean, El Nino, Monsoons, Toxins
Agriculture

Rice only Asian crop at risk from El Nino

Bloomberg SINGAPORE

RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said.

Publication Date: 
27/01/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Crops, Rice, El Nino, Climate Change, Natural Disasters, FAO, Asia
Climate Change

El Nio related health hazards in India

A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.

Publication Date: 
25/01/2010
Rais Akhtar
Current Science
98
2
144
Tags:
Waterlogging, Health Effects, El Nino, Climate Change, Heat Waves, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, India, Rajasthan, Rainfall Pattern
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

La Nina may trigger late-season monsoon burst

Vinson Kurian

Japanese researchers have indicated the possibility of La Nina, the alter ego of monsoon-buster El Nino, to unfold over the equatorial Pacific later this year.

La Nina, which represents shift of warmer sea-surface temperatures to the west equatorial Pacific, has generally coincided with a normal Indian monsoon, though there is no direct cause-effect relationship.

Publication Date: 
20/01/2010
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer, Atmosphere Science, El Nino, El Nina, Monsoons
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Monsoon 2009: a report

The 2009 southwest monsoon recorded the third highest deficient
all India southwest monsoon season rainfall (-22% of LPA) during
the period 1901-2009. All the monsoon months except July
recorded large deficient rainfall. Region wise, except south
Peninsula, all other homogeneous regions recorded much below
normal rainfall. Activity of depression was below normal with

Publication Date: 
01/01/2010
Ajit Tyagi, H. R. Hatwar, D. S. Pai
India Meteorological Department
Tags:
Atmosphere, El Nino, Weather Predictions, Monsoons, Extreme Weather Events, India, Statistics, Rainfall Pattern, Climate, Rainfall

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