Extreme precipitation events are intensifying globally due to climate change, often leading to unprecedented f lood risks and challenges in water resource management. In August 2023, Punjab, India, experienced cata strophic ...

Characteristics of wet spells (WSs) and intervening dry spells (DSs) are extremely useful for water-related sectors. The information takes on greater significance in the wake of global climate change and climate-change ...

India’s annual weather cycle consists mainly of wet and dry periods with monsoonal rains being one of the significant wet periods that shows strong spatiotemporal variability. This study includes the climatological ...

Intense rains on 16–17 June 2013 over Mandakini River catchment caused Kedarnath disaster in Uttarakhand State (India). Normal and departure-from-normal 3D global atmospheric thermal structure and general and monsoon ...

During boreal summer, the troposphere over southern hemisphere is warming at a faster rate compared to that over northern hemisphere, and the intensity of the general atmospheric as well as the Asian-Indian monsoon circulation ...

During last few decades many new challenges in the field of water have emerged such as impacts of climate change, declining groundwater levels, decline in groundwater recharge, water logging, encroachment of water sources, ...

This study evaluates groundwater quality in the Doodhganga catchment area, located in the Kashmir Valley, for its suitability for agricultural use. A comprehensive analysis of 66 groundwater samples collected over two ...

The global phenomenon of urban fooding has become a pressing issue for cities worldwide. Conventional strategies to alleviate fooding, such as augmenting the capacity of drainage systems, are incompatible with the principle ...

An ecosystem is considered fragile when it exhibits a heightened susceptibility to disruption, degradation, or irreparable harm due to its limited capacity to withstand external stressors or adapt to changes. Fragile ...

We analyzed annual peak flow series from 127 naturally flowing or naturalized streamflow gauges across western Canada to examine the impact of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on annual flood risk, which has been ...