Floods and hazardous heavy rainfall in India: Comparison between local versus oceanic impact

Authors

  • S. N. PANDEY Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005
  • R. BHATLA Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005.
  • MANOJ K. SRIVASTAVA MANOJ K. SRIVASTAVA
  • R. K. MALL National Institute of Disaster Management, IIPA Campus, New Delhi-110002

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54386/jam.v12i1.1265

Keywords:

Flood, heavy rainfall, hazard, local atmospheric phenomenon, oceanic impact

Abstract

India, leading to heavy rainfall. Such heavy rainfall result in floods for wider region of northern India, and, which, finally, causes loss of agriculture, human and animal’s life, outbreak of diseases/ epidemics, and thus affecting national economy. An attempt has therefore, been made to analyze the disastrous events that occurred in the summer monsoon months over different states in India for the period 1981-2000. The analyses included the raining event which were active, but, caused due to- or without the monsoonal-systems that were formed in north Indian Ocean. Results showed that West Bengal was the mostly affected state during monsoon season, where both, local as well as monsoonal systems were equally responsible for heavy rainfall/ flood events. The local atmospheric phenomenon affected highly to Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, whereas for systems that were associated with the north Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, the states of West Bengal and Orissa were the mostly affected states. From the study, it may be concluded that all the heavy rainfall related disastrous weather events formed over different states in India was not only due to systems developed over Oceans, rather, local atmospheric phenomena had equally important contributor of similar affects, particularly for northern and western India.

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Published

01-06-2010

How to Cite

S. N. PANDEY, R. BHATLA, MANOJ K. SRIVASTAVA, & R. K. MALL. (2010). Floods and hazardous heavy rainfall in India: Comparison between local versus oceanic impact. Journal of Agrometeorology, 12(1), 40–43. https://doi.org/10.54386/jam.v12i1.1265

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2010): June

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Research Paper

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