Rainfall atlas of India 1971-2020
India is in the tropical monsoon zone and received plenty of rainfall. Most of the annual rainfall occurs during the summer monsoon season (June-September) every year. However, the distribution of rainfall
Rainfall Pattern
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Country-level social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach
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Likelihood of concurrent climate extremes and variations over China
<p>Extreme climate events such as droughts and heat waves exert strong impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Estimations of the risks of climate extremes typically focus on one variable in isolation.
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Projected increase in hydropower production in India under climate change
<p>Hydropower is a valuable renewable energy resource in India, which can help in climate change mitigation and meet the increasing energy demands. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Hydropower_climate_change_India.pdf"
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Groundwater depletion causing reduction of baseflow triggering Ganges river summer drying
<p>In summer (pre-monsoon) of recent years, low water level among the last few decades, has been observed in several lower Indian reaches of the Ganges (or Ganga) river (with estimated river water level
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Future climate and runoff projections across South Asia from CMIP5 global climate models and hydrological modelling
<p>This paper presents future climate and runoff projections for the South Asia region under the RCP8.5 scenario with climate change informed by 42 CMIP5 GCMs. Runoff is projected for 0.5° grids using
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District-level assessment of the ecohydrological resilience to hydroclimatic disturbances and its controlling factors in India
<p>The carbon and water cycles play an important role in ecosystem functioning and are linked to each other through different physical and biological processes. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/hydroclimatic_disturbances.pdf
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Quantifying the effects of climate and anthropogenic change on regional species loss in China
<p>Human-induced environmental and climate change are widely blamed for causing rapid global biodiversity loss, but direct estimation of the proportion of biodiversity lost at local or regional scales
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Assessing forecasting models on prediction of the tropical cyclone Dineo and the associated rainfall over Botswana
<p>The tropical cyclone Dineo made landfall over southern Mozambique on 15 February 2017. It weakened to a remnant low on 17 February, which hit Botswana on the same day and triggered heavy rainfall that
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Transforming agriculture to climate change in Famenin County, West Iran through a focus on environmental, economic and social factors
<p>When the social, economic, or ecological conditions under which socio-ecological systems are expected to adapt become untenable, a system may transform into a fundamentally new system. Within agricultural
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Future precipitation projections over Central and Southern Africa and the adjacent Indian Ocean: What causes the changes and the uncertainty?
<p>Future projections of precipitation at regional scales are vital to inform climate change adaptation activities. Therefore, is it important to quantify projected changes and associated uncertainty,