The article informs that monsoon forecasting in India remains a mug's game. As Mumbai and surrounding regions in western India conduct funerals for about 1000 victims of the area's worst monsoon rains on record, meteorologists are mopping up after ...
Massive river interlinking projects are proposed to offset observed increasing droughts and floods in India, the most populated country in the world. These projects involve water transfer from surplus to deficit river basins through reservoirs and canals without an in-depth understanding of the hydro-...
Shankar and Shetye37 have suggested that the interdecadal variability of sea level at Mumbai mimicked the variability in rainfall over the Indian subcontinent. Similarly, ocean mean temperature, representing the upper ocean heat energy over the SWIO during pre-monsoon months of the same year, shows...
is a land of great contrasts, stretching from the seasonal salt deserts of the Kachchh (Kutch) district in the northwest, across the generally arid and semiarid scrublands of the Kathiawar Peninsula, to the wet, fertile, coastal plains of the southeastern part of the state, north of Mumbai...
Based on the analysis of cases studies that occurred, it is seen that a strong relation with the ARs and HPE is noticed over Western region of India where the ARs make landfall (Mumbai, 2005) as well as over the north western region (Uttarakhand, 2013) where ARs penetrated inland. A ...
Quite a few studies have documented the evolution of monsoon synoptic systems and midlatitude atmospheric blocking associated with the recent heavy precipitation and floods over northwest Pakistan during 2010. This period also witnessed a very unusual Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) evolution ...
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) tend to exert an offsetting impact on Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR), with an El Niño event tending to lower, whereas a positive IOD tending to increase ISMR. Simulation of these relationships in Phase Five of...