Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no‐take marine protected area

CRC Sheppard, M Ateweberhan… - Aquatic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Chagos Archipelago was designated a no‐take marine protected area
(MPA) in 2010; it covers 550 000 km2, with more than 60 000 km2 shallow limestone …

South Asian perspective on temperature and rainfall extremes: A review

G Naveendrakumar, M Vithanage, HH Kwon… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change has pushed the natural limits of our environment, creating extreme weather
events that are more frequent and more intense in certain locations around the globe. There …

Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity

V Mishra, K Thirumalai, S Jain… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Peninsular Indian agriculture and drinking water availability are critically reliant on seasonal
winter rainfall occurring from October to December, associated with the northeastern …

Temporal analysis of rainfall (1871–2012) and drought characteristics over a tropical monsoon-dominated State (Kerala) of India

J Thomas, V Prasannakumar - Journal of Hydrology, 2016 - Elsevier
The climate of Kerala is controlled by the monsoon, and the analysis of rainfall and drought
scenario, for a period of 141 years (1871–72 to 2011–12), reveals a decreasing trend in …

Northeast monsoon over India: variability and prediction

M Rajeevan, CK Unnikrishnan, J Bhate… - Meteorological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
South peninsular India experiences a large portion of the annual rainfall during the
northeast monsoon season (October to December). In this study, the facets of diurnal, intra …

[HTML][HTML] State of the climate in 2010

J Blunden, DS Arndt… - Bulletin of the American …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Several large-scale climate patterns influenced climate conditions and weather patterns
across the globe during 2010. The transition from a warm El Niño phase at the beginning of …

Development of an artificial neural network based multi-model ensemble to estimate the northeast monsoon rainfall over south peninsular India: an application of …

N Acharya, NA Shrivastava, BK Panigrahi… - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
The south peninsular part of India gets maximum amount of rainfall during the northeast
monsoon (NEM) season [October to November (OND)] which is the primary source of water …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Sri Lanka: a review and preliminary vulnerability mapping.

N Eriyagama, V Smakhtin, L Chandrapala, K Fernando - 2010 - books.google.com
There is ample evidence to suggest that Sri Lanka's climate has already changed. However,
the bigger question of national importance is what Sri Lanka's climate will look like in 50 or …

Simulation of an extreme heavy rainfall event over Chennai, India using WRF: Sensitivity to grid resolution and boundary layer physics

CV Srinivas, V Yesubabu, DH Prasad, KH Prasad… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, the heavy precipitation event on 01 December 2015 over Chennai located on
the southeast coast of India was simulated using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) …

Rainfall distributions in Sri Lanka in time and space: an analysis based on daily rainfall data

TP Burt, KDN Weerasinghe - Climate, 2014 - mdpi.com
Daily rainfall totals are analyzed for the main agro-climatic zones of Sri Lanka for the period
1976–2006. The emphasis is on daily rainfall rather than on longer-period totals, in …