Authors: Sreyasi Biswas, Charu Singh, and Anjana V S The January of 2024 saw some unusual weather in the Indo-Gangetic belt, including the Northern Indian states of Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh. Unlike any other year, a fairly large number of cold to severe cold waves hit these regions. Dense fog engulfed the cities typically from 5 to 8 in the Continue Reading »

Authors: Sreyasi Biswas and Charu Singh An Atmospheric River (AR) is a long, narrow, and transient filament of enhanced water vapour that transports fresh water from the tropics into the mid-latitudes (Figure 1). These are popularly called ‘Rivers in the Sky’ because like a river, it carries a huge volume of water. In fact, if all its water vapour were Continue Reading »

Generative AI or GenAI, also known as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on generating new data that resembles a given training dataset. It involves training a generative model to create new samples that are similar in distribution to the original data, allowing it to generate realistic and novel outputs. In a typical generative Continue Reading »

The riverine alluvial grasslands of The Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) are home to at least 2,400 one-horned rhinos and support an assemblage of eight mega- and meso-herbivores. Annual floods and monsoon clouds are an essential part of Kaziranga’s delicate ecosystem. Kaziranga exists due to the monsoon, and so is the cloud. With their large body size, the Continue Reading »

Since the beginning of the industrial era, the anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has been steadily increasing in the atmosphere caused by deforestation, fossil fuel, biomass burning, cement manufacturing, various land-use practices, and other anthropogenic activities. The ocean absorbs one-third of the total anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere and plays an important role in the mitigation of global warming and Continue Reading »