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
Solar Radiation
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Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields
Cloud simulation is one of the most challenging tasks in regional to global-scale modelling. In many cases, the physical mechanisms responsible for observed cloud dynamics are unknown, making it difficult to realistically simulate their structure and behaviour.
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Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures
Production of rice will slow down as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change warns this new study published in latest edition of PNAS. Is based an analysis of 6 years of data from the major rice-growing countries in Asia. <br /><br />See Also <br /><br />Report: A framework for adapting Indian agriculture<br />www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/299905
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Two opposing effects of absorbing aerosols on global-mean precipitation
Absorbing aerosols affect global-mean precipitation primarily in two ways. They give rise to stronger shortwave atmospheric heating, which acts to suppress precipitation. Depending on the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative flux change, they can also warm up the surface with a tendency to increase precipitation.
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Aerosol, clouds blocking sunlight over India
Clouds with aerosols conspire to block and reflect away sunlight over the Indian subcontinent, a new research claims. This results in what is called 'solar dimming' lessening the amount of sunlight that reaches Indian soil.
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ISRO to launch satellite for climate research
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), as part of the Indo-French Space Collaboration, is planning to launch a satellite for climate research in a year's time.
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Could it be this easy?
Instead of talking about global warming, let
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Amazon forests did not green?up during the 2005 drought
The sensitivity of Amazon rainforests to dry?season droughts is still poorly understood, with reports of enhanced tree mortality and forest fires on one hand, and excessive forest greening on the other. Here, we report that the previous results of large?scale greening of the Amazon, obtained from an earlier version of satellite derived vegetation greenness data ? Collection 4 (C4)
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Amazon forests did not green?up during the 2005 drought
A drought that happens once in a hundred years had little negative or positive effect on the Amazon rainforest according to this study led by Arindam Samanta from Boston University. Its results are different from 2007 IPCC report which stated that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest was threatened by climate change.