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
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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Hot Summer, Absent El Nino Set To Aid India Monsoon
India's monsoon rains, vital for the farm-dependent economy and the success of major crops, may exceed the norm this year if the El Nino system that brings drier weather fails to appear, as expected, forecasters say.
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Climate change will set back ozone layer recovery
The findings are based on a detailed computer model that includes atmospheric chemical effects, wind changes and solar radiation changes GLOBAL WARMING will set back the recovery of the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere, warns a Nasa study.
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Basic wind speed map of India with long-term hourly wind data
<p>Long-term data on hourly wind speed from 70 meteorological centres of India Meteorological Department have been collected. The daily gust wind data have been processed for annual maximum wind speed (in kmph) for each site. Using the Gumbel probability paper approach the extreme value quantiles have been derived.
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Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event
A decrease in atmospheric methane levels might have triggered the progressive rise of atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, but the cause of this methane decrease remains uncertain.
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Rainforests may pump winds worldwide
Without forests to pump moisture around the planet, would the continents turn to desert? A new theory suggests they might.
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Reap what we sow
Nitrogen-based fertilisers have helped all but eradicate famine in large parts of the world. But reactive nitrogen in circulation has now doubled. Owen Gaffney asks, what effect is this having on the carbon cycle?
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A comparison of North American and Asian exposureresponse data for ozone effects on crop yields
Modelling-based studies to assess the extent and magnitude of ozone (O3) risk to agriculture in Asia suggest that yield losses of 5
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On the determination of trends in rainfall
The question of how to assess trends in rainfall data is very relevant to that of climate change. A short review of prior work revealed that there was little consensus on the methodology to be adopted. Many methods had been tried and abandoned.
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Weathering heights
Predicted or confronting you out of the blues, bad weather can give anybody the jitters, especially when each of your business moves, right from the stage of planning to that of execution, will have to be weighed against the vagaries of weather and climatic changes. Not surprisingly, demand for intelligent, location specific weather data and reports has been on the rise.
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Increasing trend of break-monsoon conditions over India: role of oceanatmosphere processes in the Indian ocean
Analysis of daily rainfall data over India during the period 1951