Annual climate summary 2022
The annual mean land surface air temperature averaged over India during 2022 was +0.51°C above the long-term average (1981-2010 period). The year 2022 was the fifth warmest year on record since nationwide
Monsoons
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Monsoon friendly Assam reeling under drought
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Rain drops
Less precipitation over fewer days in Orissa
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Seasonal variation in the aquatic environment of Ram Ganga river at Moradabad: A quantitative study
Ram Ganga river water at 10 different sites at Moradabad were collected and analysed at pre monsoon period and after the onset of monsoon following standard methods of sampling and testing. River water is found to be contaminated with reference to almost all the physico-chemical parameters studied at almost all the sites of sampling for pre-monsoon period as well as after the onset of monsoon.
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Slippery ground
Quake hit areas of Pakistan threatened by landslide
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Rains at bay
A new study says that river linking will affect monsoons in the country
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Suicide of farmers in Maharashtra- Background Papers
<p>This paper has three parts: </p> <ul> <li> The first, an analysis of 192 news reports in a Marathi daily, Deshonnati, cites 320 cases of farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra reported during
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The salutary influence of irrigation on human settlement, economy and political power in pre-modern southeast Asia
The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia.
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ENSO control on the south Asian monsoon through the length of the rainy season
Being an integral effect of sub-seasonal rain spells over the season, the seasonal mean south Asian monsoon (SAM) rainfall could be affected by change in the length of the rainy season (LRS). An objective definition of the duration of the SAM season has, however, been lacking.
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Climate and water resources of India
We attempt to synthesize available quantitative, precisely dated and high-resolution palaeorecords of the South Asian summer monsoon from different natural archives, highlighting their similarities and differences.
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Weakening trend of the southwest monsoon current through peninsular India from 1950 to the present
The southwest monsoon current in the form of a crossequatorial low level jetstream (LLJ) with its core at an altitude of about 1.5 km and core wind speeds of 80