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Study Reveals Southward Shift of Precipitation Extremes over South Asia

Study Reveals Southward Shift of Precipitation Extremes over South Asia

Has your monsoon experience across India changed over the years? The reason could be blamed on shifts in the spatio-temporal pattern of monsoon. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group, IIT Kharagpur researchers reveal that the pattern of monsoon and daily extreme rainfall is changing in India with more extremes expected over southern India and Himalayan foothills. They further predicted a continued southward shift of precipitation extremes over South Asia.  The researchers have studied data of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation for close to five decades, 1971 - 2017 (base period: 1930-1970). The data shows more…
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A New Page in India’s History

A New Page in India’s History

Times of India         Hindu BusinessLine         Hindustan Times      Nature Asia      UNI      DownToEarth        NewsLive (North East 24x7)     India Today     Yahoo News       The Hindu        Millenium Post         India Blooms         Deccan Herald         NewsClick       The Week         Dainik Jagran       Ahmedabad Mirror      Swarajya       Asian Age A breakthrough discovery by a study led by IIT Kharagpur…
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New Indian Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Model Developed by IIT KGP Researchers

New Indian Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Model Developed by IIT KGP Researchers

Business Standard     Financial Express      Millenium Post     Prabhat Khabar     The Week     Outlook Researchers from Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of IIT KGP have developed a new statistical model, which can be used to predict variability and trends in rainfall over different climate regions of India taking into consideration both local and remote factors causing weather change. Many of these, local and remote, factors that affect weather conditions have been known to the scientific community. However, most weather forecast models typically consider local factors or a single factor that affects rainfall or…
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