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Chamoli Disaster 2021, Uttarakhand: A study on the role of a hidden meteorological parameter
The Chamoli district of the Himalayan state Uttarakhand experienced a glacier breakage leading to a devastating flash flood on 07 Feb 2021. The event claimed several lives and also destroyed the hydropower pro...
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Performance of 4D-Var Data Assimilation on Extreme Snowfall Forecasts over the Western Himalaya Using WRF Model
The accurate predictions of extreme precipitation/snowfall events are very helpful in identifying the severe avalanche/landslide prone hazard areas in advance over high mountainous regions. The Weather Researc...
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Flow cytometry analysis of apoptotic progression and expression analysis of four apoptosis-related genes in Penaeus vannamei in response to white spot syndrome virus infection
Flow cytometry analysis was carried out to detect the progression of apoptosis in haemocytes of WSSV infected Penaeus vannamei at different time-points (1.5 hpi, 18 hpi and 56 hpi). Apoptosis in haemocytes was fo...
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Correction of mesoscale model daily precipitation data over Northwestern Himalaya
Maximum numerical weather prediction models have their own inherent biases and these biases have high impact on accuracy of weather forecast. Hence, bias correction is an essential part of any study for any mo...
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Avalanche hazard mitigation in east Karakoram mountains
Karakoram mountains range in north-western part of Himalayas is about 500 km in length and hosts some of the world’s highest peaks and longest glaciers. It is characterized by steep slopes and polar climate. S...
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Statistical Method of Forecasting of Seasonal Precipitation over the Northwest Himalayas: North Atlantic Oscillation as Precursor
Dynamical and Statistical models are operationally used by Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) for winter precipitation forecasting over the Northwest Himalayas (NWH). In this paper, a statistical re...
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Comparative evaluation of performances of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model and an analog ensemble system over the Northwest Himalaya (NWH)
An analog ensemble system (AE system) is developed for real-time local-scale prediction of precipitation amount at ten stations in the Northwest Himalaya (NWH) utilizing surface-meteorological observations. Co...
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Forecasting extreme precipitation event over Munsiyari (Uttarakhand) using 3DVAR data assimilation in mesoscale model
A localized extreme precipitation event occurred over Munsiyari (Uttarakhand, India) on 2nd July 2018 causing flash floods, landslides and damage to the hydropower project. A preliminary study has been carried...
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Susceptibility assessment of rainfall induced debris flow zones in Ladakh–Nubra region, Indian Himalaya
In recent past, rainfall-induced debris flow events in Ladakh–Nubra region have caused loss of lives and damages to civil infrastructures and army locations. Therefore, there is a need of high spatial and temp...
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Open AccessTemporal changes in transcriptome profile provide insights of White Spot Syndrome Virus infection in Litopenaeus vannamei
Shrimp aquaculture is severely affected by WSSV. Despite an increasing effort to understand host/virus interaction by characterizing changes in gene expression (GE) following WSSV infection, the majority of pu...
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Spatio-temporal variability of binary weather patterns and precipitation amounts of short time intervals during winter period over the north-west Himalaya (NWH)
Spatio-temporal variability of binary weather patterns (precipitation event/no-precipitation event) and precipitation amounts of short time intervals of 15, 24, 48 and 72 hours (h) are examined by analysing da...
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Quality of local scale surface weather analogs over the north-west Himalaya (NWH), India
An analog ensemble system was developed for the realisation of local-scale surface meteorological variables for independent test data (test data) at six stations over the north-west Himalaya (NWH), India. Extr...
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The impacts of the approaching western disturbances (WDs) on the surface meteorological variables over the north-west Himalaya (NWH), India
Eastward-moving upper air troughs in the subtropical westerlies, commonly known as the western disturbances (WDs) in the Asian subcontinent, are primary sources of precipitation over the north-west Himalayan (...
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Genome size estimation of brackishwater fishes and penaeid shrimps by flow cytometry
Flow cytometry was used for estimating the genome size of five brackishwater finfish and four shrimp species. The genome size for Lutjanus argentimaculatus was 0.95 ± 0.10 and 0.79 ± 0.01 pg for Scatophagus argus
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Variability of Diurnal Temperature Range During Winter Over Western Himalaya: Range- and Altitude-Wise Study
The current trends in diurnal temperature range, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, mean temperature, and sun shine hours over different ranges and altitudes of Western Himalaya during winter have been ...
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Winter Climate and Snow Cover Variability Over North-West Himalaya
The impact of climate change over Indian Himalaya has received a great deal of attention worldwide. The present study focuses the recent winter climate, snow cover and albedo variability over north-west Himala...
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Sensitivity of the Himalayan orography representation in simulation of winter precipitation using Regional Climate Model (RegCM) nested in a GCM
The role of the Himalayan orography representation in a Regional Climate Model (RegCM4) nested in NCMRWF global spectral model is examined in simulating the winter circulation and associated precipitation over...
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Molecular Characterization of Differentially Expressed ADP Ribosylation Factor from WSSV Infected Black Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon
Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) cDNA library was constructed using hepatopancreas of the WSSV infected black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon. The differentially expressed ESTs of SSH cDNA library repres...
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Simulations of Tropical Circulation and Winter Precipitation Over North India: an Application of a Tropical Band Version of Regional Climate Model (RegT-Band)
In the present study, simulations have been carried out to study the relationship between winter-time precipitations and the large-scale global forcing (ENSO) using the tropical band version of Regional Climat...
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A study on the heavy rainfall event around Kedarnath area (Uttarakhand) on 16 June 2013
The heavy rainfall event during 14–17 June 2013 in Uttarakhand and more specifically, its occurrence around the Kedarnath region on 16 June 2013 with devastating floods and massive landslides ruined thousands ...
