Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
In the polar tropospheric boundary layer, reactive halogen species (RHS) are responsible for ozone depletion as well as the oxidation of elemental mercury and dimethyl sulphide. After polar sunrise, air masses enriched in reactive bromine cover areas of several million square kilometers. Still, the source and release mechanisms of halogens are not completely understood.
Ahmedabad First South Asian Climate Outlook Forum in city today Last year, the monsoon forecast was 22 per cent off the mark. This year, however, even before the monsoon forecast for this month, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is set to do forecasting for the entire South Asia region, for the first time, by April end.
R. Ramachandran New Delhi: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has proposed a National Mission on monsoon towards developing reliable dynamic models for forecasting the monsoon over the next three to five-year period through a multi-institutional effort.
Shweta Kamat PANJIM, APRIL 12 The extent of the much feared ozone depletion over Goa will now be known to researchers through a facility planned to come up at Vasco. Goa is one amongst the 20 stations, where the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune will spearhead the country
Asian pollution is a global problem. Millions of tonnes of soot, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants are fast-tracked into the stratosphere each year by the summer monsoon.
New Delhi: During the course of last month, many Delhiites swore they had never experienced such high temperatures in the capital this time of the year. They were absolutely right. March this year was the second warmest in Delhi since systematic records began in 1901, the Met department said on Friday. The only time Delhi had a warmer month of March was way back in 1953.
We apply Fourier and wavelet analyses to the precipitation and sunspot numbers in the time series (1901
Mumbai An Indian-made Doppler radar designed for real time weather prediction, a need felt during the 2005 deluge, is headed for the city, with weather officials optimistic it will be in place before this year
Eswar Singh K R Mysore, Mar 25, DHNS As one more World Meteorological Day passes without fanfare early this week, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Bangalore is quietly on the path of updating and modernisation.
Noting that the decade 2000-2009 was warmest ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that 2009 was the fifth-warmest year since climate records began in 1850. In a report on its 60th anniversary, the UN weather agency said the nineties were warmer than the eighties.The report showed that the decade 2000-2009 was warmest ever recorded.