Meteorology
241 books
This compendium of fourteen papers attempts to examine the various aspects of climate variability in Bangladesh. Explaining the basic concepts related to weather, climate, climate variability and climate change, it discusses at length the variability of temperature and rainfall and its connection with distant climatic phenomena.
Further it examines some of the extreme climatic events such as extreme rainfall, tropical cyclones and pre-monsoon thunderstorms. ...
The wind rose is a method of graphically representing the occurrence of winds at a location, showing their strength, direction and frequency. It is a very useful representation as a large quantity of data has been summarised in a simple graphical plot.
The wind roses in this publication are based on wind data recorded at 1200 UTC (1730 IST) by 180 surface meteorological observatories under the network of India Meteorological Department. This publication is ...
The volume examines the issue of environmental degradation with a new and bold perspective. It is a study of the strategy of investors and big corporations, backed by the Western economies, to manipulate markets and control the economy of nations, particularly the developing ones, in order to grow economically stronger. It throws light on the impact of capitalist development and environmental policies touted by the West. It calls for victim nations to come ...
The articles written from various perspectives deal with the threat of climate change to human security. Taking into view India’s views and role in climate change negotiations and with specific reference to Africa and India’s neighbours while studying the challenges and response to climate change, they delve into the impact of climate change which was not seen as a threat and hence not crafted within the contours of state security and its associated ...
Understanding the structure of deeper parts of the earth is of vital importance to understand the relationship between the processes that have taken place inside it and evolution of various structural / tectonic features present on the Earth's surface. This knowledge also provides insight into the characteristics of the earthquakes, other natural hazards and formation / distribution of the natural resources. The geological efforts to study the Earth, including ...
What has come in for the most daunting challenge to the ingrained conventional pronouncement of security in Westphalia parlance built around state and its corresponding apparatus is none else than the very inordinate and relentless human interference into the functioning of nature in pursuit of development, requirements of modernity and civilized and exorbitant life style culminating in climate change along with its apocalyptic consequences wrought on human ...
The wind rose is a method of graphically representing the occurrence of winds at a location, showing their strength, direction and frequency. It is a very useful representation as a large quantity of data has been summarised in a simple graphical plot.
The wind roses in this publication are based on wind data recorded at by 180 surface meteorological observatories under the network of India Meteorological Department. This publication is divided into two sections, ...
This booklet is an enlarged version of D.B. Thengadi Memorial Lecture, 2007 which author delivered at the Constitution Club, New Delhi. Enlargement has been necessitated by the vastness of the subject which essentially concerns the soul and sinews of modern civilisation. The booklet has been divided into seven chapters. In Chapter I, depth and dimensions of the crisis of environment and climate change have been briefly brought out. Chapter II is devoted to the ...
Having contributions by noted multi-disciplinary scholars and researchers from India as well as abroad—this edited volume comprising a total of 28 essays and research articles is a rich source of useful supplementary reading on diverse environmental issues and concerns: climate change, sustainable agriculture, soil and water conservation, green buildings, green marketing, water quality assessment and control, and environmental pollution & its control. ...
To mitigate, develop, and improve the lives of those vulnerable to intense natural disasters, climate change, and food insecurity, many agencies are funding and implementing diverse activities from reconstruction to rehabilitation, and this book presents the lessons and impacts from a collection of these projects. It describes concepts, strategies, processes, and tools in such a way that they can be easily replicated and shared with a wider audience. This study ...
Climate warming has become so universally accepted that it is worth one's reputation to raise even a tepid question regarding warming wisdom or its factual accuracy. Ordinary civic minded citizens who dare to exhibit the temerity to raise serious questions about the merits of man-made CO2 are routinely dismissed as uninformed troglodytes. Scientists who question prevailing climate wisdom are shunned by professional colleagues and shut out from lucrative ...
