Monsoons

Monsoon prediction model

a new method that used the Bangladesh monsoon to make a monsoon prediction model could end the woes of millions of farmers. The method was used for the first time to produce forecasts of 20-25 days

Publication Date:

30/03/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

El Nino, Monsoons, Bangladesh

India

All India drought

Since 1987, India has had 14

Publication Date:

14/01/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030115

pp:

0

Tags:

Monsoons, India, Statistics

India

Weathering the drought

Meteorological Department attempts to get its act together after bungling with monsoon predictions

Publication Date:

14/01/2003

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

El Nino, Monsoons, Development, Science, Technology, Politics, Rainfall

Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

The Indian Ocean experiment and the Asian Brown Cloud

The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was sponsored by research agencies within Europe, India and USA, and was mainly concerned with the haze over south Asia and the adjacent Indian Ocean. It excluded other equally or even more polluted areas in Asia. The Asian Brown Cloud is a follow on international research project that includes all of Asia.

Publication Date:

25/10/2002

Author(s): V. Ramanathan, P. J. Crutzen, A. P. Mitra & et al

Source: Current Science

Vol:

83

Issue:

8

pp:

947

Tags:

Air Pollution, Himalaya, Agriculture, Water Resources, Arabian Sea, Bay Of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Health Effects, Atmosphere And Ozone Layer, Monsoons, Solar Radiation, Climate Change, Aerosols, Asia, India, South Asia

Agriculture

Television had promised rain

RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration

Publication Date:

14/10/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021015

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Monsoons, Drought, Migration, Poverty, Ahmedabad (D), Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Water Resources

Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Publication Date:

29/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020930

pp:

0

Tags:

Mining, Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Forest Fires, Monsoons, Drought, Women, Traditional Knowledge, Governance, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Dehradun

India

Romancing the rains

A BBC Radio 3 programme on the Indian monsoon

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Author(s): Manoj Nadkarni

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Monsoons, India, Delhi

India

Eyewash

Did global warming intensify the Southwest Asian monsoon?

Publication Date:

30/08/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Monsoons, Global Warming, Asia, India, Developing Countries, Statistics

Climate Change

The politics of empty words

The new buzzword in the climate research circles is vulnerability and adaptation. Just like most of the climate discussion the words have become so dense, that their meaning is lost on most, except

Publication Date:

14/08/2002

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020815

pp:

6

Tags:

Glaciers, Water Management, Monsoons, Green House Gases, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Compensation, Research, Climate

Climate Change

Quantifying the risk of extreme seasonal precipitation events in a changing climate

Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will almost certainly lead to changes in global mean climate. But because - by defnition-extreme events are rare, it is significantly more difficult to quantify the risk of extremes.

Publication Date:

31/01/2002

Author(s): T. N. Palmer, J. Risnen

Source: Nature

Vol:

415

Issue:

0

pp:

512

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Monsoons, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Asia, United Kingdom (UK), Rainfall Pattern, River Basin, Rainfall