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NBA PRESS RELEASE: 14 June
It is clear that this year, 258 ...
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NEHA JEH Position on Global Climate Change
Warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall have created ideal conditions for vectors and the pathogens to ... effect to cause a seven to 14 percent drop in monsoon rainfall over India and parts of China by the middle of ... Stratospheric Aerosol," Science, 270:1650-1653. 21. Mudur, G. (1995), "Monsoon Shrinks with Aerosol Models," Science, 270:1922. 22. Mitchell, J., J. ...
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Team Including Lamont-Doherty Researcher Receives World Meteorological Association Award - The Earth Institute at Columbia University
In some El Niño years, however, the rains do not fail, and the reason for this is not known. The team showed that Indian monsoon rainfall depends not only on El Niño occurrences, but on the pattern of the El Niño temperature anomalies at the time of the summer monsoon ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
GCMs, although all models produce an increase in monsoon rainfall. 11.2.4. A Recent Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent The response of the monsoon ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Himalayan rivers in a given year results from the monsoon rainfall of the previous year. Catchments in Nepal supply about 70% of the dry-season flow ... same time of the year (Sooryanarayana, 1995). Increases in rainfall during the northeast monsoon, as well as increases in the magnitude of extreme rainfall events-both of which have been projected with climate ...
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India cops: 20 die in building collapse - South and Central Asia - MSNBC.com
Mumbai, police said Wednesday. "There could be more people trapped under ... and smashed wooden furniture. Police estimate the dilapidated building was around 65 years old. Heavy monsoon rainfall and shoddy building construction are often blamed for building collapses in Mumbai. The Associated ...
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South Asia - SciDev.Net
Fairless. Source: Nature 15 October 2007 | EN Poor prediction models for Asian monsoon Current models cannot properly predict monsoon rainfall in Asia — or how it will be affected by global warming, writes ...
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ECHO: Networking Global Hunger Solutions
Solutions Tropical Monsoon Tropical monsoon climates are characterized by alternating wet and dry periods with seasonal wind shifts. The rainy season normally lasts only 5-7 months. Annual rainfall is moderate, and little or no rain falls during the long dry season. In monsoon regions near the equator there may be two rainy seasons a year. Tropical monsoon climates ...
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Climate models 'underestimating' tropical rainfall - SciDev.Net
West African monsoon. This is matched by decreased rainfall in dry subtropical regions such as the Sahel region of Africa. Increased rainfall occurs because the atmosphere ... RELATED ARTICLES Researchers deduce Asian monsoon strength 7 March 2008 Poor prediction models for Asian monsoon 12 October 2007 Hotter Earth implicated in tropical rainfall rise 31 August 2007 RELATED ...
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Monsoon Formation Theory Gets Overhaul
Simona Bordoni, who used a computer-generated, water-covered, hypothetical earth to simulate monsoon formation and found that differences in heat capacities between land and sea were not ... generate the characteristic high surface winds and heavy rainfall of the monsoon. "These feedbacks provide one possible explanation for the rapidity of monsoon onset, which had been a long-standing conundrum ...
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