Annual climate summary- 2021
The annual mean land surface air temperature averaged over India during 2021 was +0.44 C above the long-term average (1981-2010 period). The year 2021 was the fifth warmest year on record since nationwide
Monsoons
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Water way
With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time.
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Cropped harvest
The much awaited monsoon in Bangladesh spells doom for the nation
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No digging
An ambitious masterplan to tackle Bombay's perennial water-logging problem during its ferocious monsoons will use an innovative, sub-surface "no dig" technology. The new system, part of a Rs
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Signals of the change in monsoonal precipitation at around 2,000 years BP in a sediment core off central west coast of India
A 4.80 m long shallow water sediment core, collected from the inner shelf (at 22 m water depth) off Karwar, near Kali river mouth is studied for foraminiferal tracers of palaeomonsoons. The climate history
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Where have we gone wrong?
With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?
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Bangladesh ravaged by floods
Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy
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Pre monsoon
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Monsoon eve
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Monsoon: Make or break
When the axis of the monsoon trough falls between Jodhpur and Kharagpur, well-distributed rain falls over central India and the Indo-Gangetic plain. Sometimes, the trough shifts north, towards the
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Clearing the clouds
<p>THIS was one storm that the meteorologists couldn't predict. When Vasant Gowariker, scientific adviser to the Prime Minister, and a team of meteorologists from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), announced in early April that the coming monsoon will be on the lower side of normal, the prediction drew a great deal of flak. <br /> <br />