More extreme rains likely in future due to warm temperatures

In the future, there could be a decrease in cloud cover along with an increase in cloud water content, suggesting a shift in the cloud type to more convective clouds resulting in extreme rains. It means the Indian summer monsoon season is expected to have short bursts of convective rains leading to extreme rainfall events but drier conditions for most days. Dr. Stella Jes Varghese, currently working as a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) national post-doctoral fellow at CEOAS carried out the research under the mentorship of Ashok Karumuri. It is also collaborative research involving scientists from CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan, including  Sajani Surendran, Kavirajan Rajendran, Subimal Ghosh and Akio Kitoh.

The study was published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105680 

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/more-extreme-rains-likely-in-future-due-to-warm-temperatures-uoh-study/article67722846.ece 

CSIR institute gets AMD computing support for Covid-19 research

CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research body based in Bengaluru, will get high-performance technology contributions from the chip-maker AMD as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/csir-institute-gets-amd-computing-support-for-covid-19-research/article32603073.ece

CSIR-4PI signed MoU with PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

CSIR-4PI signed MoU with PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY on 30 September 2022 for collaborative academic and scientific research related to the Green House Gas measurement, identification of carbon sources /sinks and Data Sciences

Western Ghats forest cover vital for Tamil Nadu’s South-West monsoon rainfall

Researchers have found one more reason why urgent steps have to be taken to stop deforestation in the Western Ghats. The dense vegetation in the Western Ghats determines the amount of rainfall that Tamil Nadu gets during the summer monsoon.

The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters also found that deforestation of the Ghats led to 0.25 degree C increase in surface temperature across the State. The work was done in collaboration with Prof. Raghu Murtugudde of University of Maryland and Dr K. Rajedran from CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), Bangalore.

Soruce: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/western-ghats-forest-cover-vital-for-tamil-nadus-sw-monsoon-rainfall/article23761534.ece