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Category: Monsoon rainfall

Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019

Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwest India, IIT Bombay finds

IIT Bombay researchers have found the reason why the summer monsoon rainfall has shifted towards northwest India and intensification of extreme rainfall is seen over central India during the month…

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Posted on May 23, 2019

Surveillance from the sky using RISAT-2B satellite

RISAT-2B satellite launched on May 22 will use microwave radiation for crop monitoring, forestry and flood mapping. The satellite can image during day and night and under almost all weather…

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Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

Groundwater depletion alarming in northwest, central India

While a majority of districts in India experienced significant depletion in groundwater storage, those in the Indo-Gangetic plain, northwestern, central, and western parts of India showed the most reduction due…

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Posted on October 23, 2018November 11, 2018

Only 32% of India is resilient to drought

Based on data from 2000 to 2014, only 241 of 634 (about 38%) districts in India were found to be resilient to drought or dry conditions. The remaining 62% districts…

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Posted on September 14, 2018September 15, 2018

Pollution reduces day time temperature during Indian summer monsoon

Increased aerosol loading in the atmosphere due to pollution has led to changes in the number, shape and characteristics of the rain-bearing clouds. The increased cloud reflectance has led to…

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Posted on September 1, 2018September 2, 2018

IITM: Ocean mean temperature better predicts Indian summer monsoon

Researchers at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology report that ocean mean temperature is more accurate in predicting Indian monsoon than sea surface temperature, which is used routinely. While the…

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Posted on August 23, 2018August 24, 2018

Extreme rainfall events pose a challenge to reservoir operations

Modelling studies by IIT Ghandhinagar team has found that if high emission continues, then by the end of the century the mean annual air temperature is projected to increase up to 6.25…

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Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

Short, heavy spells get a new name – mini-cloud burst

Researchers at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune have coined a new term — mini-cloud burst — to define rainfall in excess of 50 mm in two consecutive hours. While extreme rainfall of over…

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