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50% rise in extreme rain incidence in last 50 yrs [1]

    The Leh cloudburst has again brought out the glaring lack of adequate documentation on such sporadic weather events. J Srinivasan, chairman of Divecha Centre for Climate Change and head of Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, tells TOI

Publication Date: 
13/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Rainfall [3], Extreme Weather Events [4], Natural Disasters [5], Leh (D) [6], Jammu & Kashmir [7], Climate Impacts [8], Climate Change [9], Atmosphere And Ozone Layer [10]

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