Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Rainfall
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Villagers march to revive the Meghal river
Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh district, Gujarat. From December 23 to 26, 2002, thousands of villagers from villages in Keshod, Maliya, Memd
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Weathering the drought
Meteorological Department attempts to get its act together after bungling with monsoon predictions
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Climate change and human health: Risks and responses
This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.
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Drenched by doubts
Officials dismiss green rain in Bengal village as bee droppings, but experts find flaws in the theory
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Techno rainbird
NASA develops computer model to track origins of rain
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Quantifying the risk of extreme seasonal precipitation events in a changing climate
Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will almost certainly lead to changes in global mean climate. But because - by defnition-extreme events are rare, it is significantly more difficult to quantify the risk of extremes.
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Watered down
Aerosols could be wrecking havoc with the Earth s water cycle
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Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle
Human activities are releasing tiny particles (aerosols) into the atmosphere. These human-made aerosols enhance scattering and absorption of solar radiation. They also produce brighter clouds that are
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The manufacture of popular perceptions of scarcity: Dams and water-related narratives in Gujarat, India
This paper critically examines some narratives of water scarcity in Kutch, western India. It argues that images of dwindling rainfall and increasing drought largely serve to legitimize the controversial
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Disastrous state
F<font class="UCASE">or</font> more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity.