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RAIN PREDICTIONS El NiÑo/La NiÑa and The Indian Monsoon

The monsoon varies over intra-seasonal, inter-annual and multi-decadal time-scales—with the inter-annual variability being the most relevant to the season. Droughts and floods associated with this variability adversely impact agriculture, water resources and eventually, the Indian economy.

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MONSOON IN INDIA India’s Weather extremes

Being a land with a unique climatic regime, including two monsoon seasons, two cyclone seasons, hot and cold weather seasons, cold waves and fog, India is vulnerable to several extreme weather events. A spatio-temporal analysis of these weather extremes is extremely essential to help understand India’s vulnerability potential, and hence minimise the adverse impacts on the population.

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