IMPO would serve as a global hub for monsoon research in India,fostered under the leadership of @moesgoi, the World Climate Research Programme & World Weather Research Programme of @WMO.
Reiterating the importance of monsoons for national economy, IMPO will encompass activities & connections related to international monsoons research.
The International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) aims to strengthen monsoon research to decode the seasonal variability of monsoons, enhancing prediction skill of monsoons and cyclones, for better support to weather forecast operations and services.
The International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO), set up under an agreement between the @WMO & the @iitmpune under the @moesgoi will streamline & conduct more focused research on monsoons across the world.
IMPO would give huge impetus to global monsoons research coordination in #India. It shall also support the activities of the Monsoons Panel, jointly established by @WCRP_CLIVAR & @GEWEX_WCRP core projects of the @WCRP_climate.
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@Indiametdept has published Statement on Climate of India during 2020.
🔸Annual mean land surface air temp averaged over India in 2020 was 0.29ºC above (1981-2010 period) average.
🔹Annual rainfall over India as a whole in 2020 was 109% of its Long Period Average for 1961-2010.
🔸With a +0.29ºC anomaly 2020 was India's 8th warmest year on record since 1901
🔹2016 (+0.71ºC) has been warmest on record
🔸2011-2020 was India's warmest decade on record with a +0.34ºC anomaly
🔹Global mean surface temp anomaly during 2020 (Jan to Oct as per WMO) is +1.2ºC
Rainfall over India as a whole during SW monsoon season (June-September) was above normal - 109 % of Long Period Average
Region-wise rainfall received against LPA:
🔸Central - 115%
🔹South Peninsular - 129%
🔸East & Northeast - 106%
🔹Northwest - 84%
(1/7) A @ncaor_goa study: Glacier research is so treacherous at the “3rd Pole-the largest mass of ice & glaciers outside the #polar region”. Scientists in the Indian Himalayas [6Kft -17Kft] live on low oxygen, zip lines & paths blocked by giant boulder. bit.ly/3dfgsGC
(2/7) 1/3 of the glaciers of the Hindu Kush #Himalayas [2175 mile long] are in danger. “We haven’t even scratched the surface in understanding how fast the glaciers are melting & what happens next” says Sharma, a glaciologist with @ncaor_goabit.ly/3dfgsGC
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The mass balance of six glaciers of the many in the Hindu Kush #Himalayas range has alarmingly squeezed in the last decade to 86.9 sq. miles in 2019 from 115.8 sq. miles in 2009 & there are thousands like these. #GlobalWarming@ncaor_goa bit.ly/3dfgsGC