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Displaying 15 of about 132 resultsSOP for heatwave has been developed by the District Disaster Management Authority of Gorakhpur with technical support from UNICEF, UP. In SOP, the roles & responsibilities of all the departmental stakeholders have been clearly identified & comprehensively described for the mitigation of heatwave. Apart from the above measures, SOP describes the…
… records that go back to the 1880s. Globally, the rise in heat-related deaths is stunning: from less than 6,000 in … National Policy on Disaster Management, 2009, recognise heat waves as a natural calamity so few resources are … government has been known to routinely underestimate heat wave tolls . It only counts heat strokes and heat wave …
… By Vishwa Mohan Over 6,100 people have died in India due to heat waves in the last nine years (2010-18), with the year … Vardhan, on Wednesday said a latest study had shown that heat waves have increased in many parts of the country, with … of casualties since 2015 despite the severity of heat wave occurrences. [...] Noting that the heat action plan is a …
… Brutal temperatures rage across South Asia as heat resilience expands to new cities and states A pioneering strategy to protect people from killer heat waves is rapidly catching on across India and beyond, as … Disaster Management Authority has notified 23 heat wave-prone states to develop similar heat protection plans …
… there is need for urgent action to combat debilitating heat stress and to build climate-resilient infrastructure … to 450 million is likely to be exposed to the risk of heat stress. India must gear up for this emerging public … on smaller towns and villages. For instance, the 2015 heat wave resulted in over 2,000 deaths in rural Andhra Pradesh. …
… This paper proposes a heat-wave definition for Bangladesh that could be used to trigger preparedness measures in a heat early warning system (HEWS) and explores the climate …
… Pakistan experienced 126 heat waves of varying durations from 1997 to 2015. … cropped. Statistical model can help Pakistan prepare for heat waves, researchers say Pakistan experiences an average … waves By Saleem Shaikh [ISLAMABAD] A new statistical heat wave forecasting model can help Pakistan predict the …
… change, not least among them being more days of extreme heat. … This report focuses on the changing climate. India … change, not least among them being more days of extreme heat. …
… around the world. India experienced its second-longest heat wave, with temperatures reaching 50.8°C. July 2019 was the … change, not least among them being more days of extreme heat. Extreme heat impacts societies in many ways. One impact …
… Brown Even with climate mitigation measures, the summer heat in Mecca will threaten the lives of many thousands of … will soon be in severe danger of death from the extreme heat in years when the Hajj takes place in mid-summer, … spend more than a week on the pilgrimage in unrelenting heat. The dates for the Hajj are fixed by the lunar cycle, …
… summers and monsoons are hotter by 3.6°C and 3.3°C on the heat index compared to the 1950s. An analysis by the Centre … of weather data for 2010-2017 reveals that average heat index of both the seasons has witnessed a steady upward trend. [...] The health costs of the heat island effect are massive. A study of excess mortalities …
… poles. And with electricity yet to be restored, the heat is sapping. I feel helpless." Fourteen districts of … the rising temperatures have become the new challenge." Heat and dust Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada … that contained the death toll to 64, Sethi said rising heat had become the biggest challenge for quick …
Climate change is making an already difficult search for fish harder, boosts costs for fuel, ice and nets
By Colin Daileda
Thankachan Polayalil has been a fisherman for 42 of his 65 years, long enough to remember when fish were visible from land, brimming just beyond the palm trees of the Malabar Coast.
Now his boat is equipped with an echolocation m…
… study aims at the real-time monitoring and prediction of heat waves using a multi-model dynamical ensemble prediction … which can be used for real-time prediction as well. A heat wave day is identified when either (1) Tmax (a)≥ its …
… and Sumedha Malaviya India is ground zero for extreme heat. More than 6,100 people have died from heat events since 2010. Half of the country reeled under … in a similar way. Better Buildings Can Minimize Heat Wave Impacts Because India’s extreme heat and its impact on …