National Symposium

Indian Summer Monsoon is well known for its range of variability it displays to the people of this subcontinent. The variability in rainfall exists over a wide range of time scale for days to decades and over a range of spatial scales. The Mumbai flooding, the Uttarakhand extreme event, J&K floods, the erratic flooding of Brahmaputra, Ganga are a few examples of this variability of monsoon. The other side of the coin is the large scale droughts as it happened in current season and prolonged dry spells experienced during the peak season(July and August). Two back-to-back droughts (2014 and 2015) in may parts of the country has posed severe challenges for agricultural and drinking water. Understanding and predicting such events is a tough challenge to the researchers working in this area. The workshop is aimed to bring together and share the state-of-art developments in this field by the researchers working towards understanding the monsoon variability in multiple scales, impact of climate change and the role of oceans in generating monsoon extremes. The deliberations in the symposium will be by the experts as key note addresses and contributions from the young researchers.

Annual Workshop

The all India seasonal mean rainfall during 2015 SW monsoon season happened to be below normal (14% deficient). Monthly rainfall over the country as a whole was 115.8% in June, 83.7% in July and 78.1% in August, and 76% in September with respect to their long period average. The seasonal deficiency was mainly contributed by the large scale rainfall deficiencies over most parts of the country during end of season. The season was well predicted as strong El-Nino was also forecasted from most meterological forecasting agencies. What caused the above normal rainfall in subsequent month, what were the forecasts for the season and during the season on different temporal and spatial scales, how the forecasts helped in planning the agricultural and hydrological operations etc. will be discussed in the annual workshop through invited lectures by leading experts from the country.

Invited Talks on

a) Observed features during monsoon 2015

b) Long-range, extended-range, medium range and short-range forecasts and their validation

c) Agricultural and hydrological aspects

Call for contributions

We encourage student/research scholars (within 35 years) to contribute their original research work on the following topics:

a) Understanding and forecasting monsoon intraseasonal extremes

b) Understanding and forecasting monsoon monsoon extremes

c) Impact of Climate change on monsoon extremes

d) Role of ocean in modulating monsoon extremes

Participants are requested to submit the abstract in .doc/.docx format(max 350, words) by indicating the authors name, affiliation, e-mail and contact number to imspunechapter@gmail.com by highlighting the presenting author.

There is limited fund for accommodation and travel support up to 3 A/C train fare for the students/research scholars with 1^st author paper