Fujiwhara effect
Context When two hurricanes (or cyclones, depending on where you live), spinning in the same direction, are brought close together, they begin ‘an intense dance around their common center’ –…
Context When two hurricanes (or cyclones, depending on where you live), spinning in the same direction, are brought close together, they begin ‘an intense dance around their common center’ –…
Context The impact of global warming on the monsoons are manifest in the onset, withdrawal, its seasonal total rainfall, and its extremes. Global warming also affects the cyclones over the Indian Ocean…
Context The Japanese archipelago, one of the world’s prominent island groups that lies just off the coast of Eurasia, now has 14,125 islands, according to the Japanese government. Key Details…
Main Central Thrust, Himalayan Thrust and Frontal Thrust Context Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause…
Context The storm pummelling large swaths of the United States and Canada is what forecasters call a “bomb cyclone.” What is a “bomb cyclone”? Forecasters have termed the blizzard as different from…
Context Two major volcanoes Mauna Loa in Hawaii and Mount Semeru in Indonesia — erupted in a span of a week, releasing plumes of gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2)…
What is lake-effect snow? Context It’s hard for most people to imagine more than 4 feet of snow in one storm, like the Buffalo area was forecast to get this…
Context With the rapidly declining water table threatening to push many regions into drought, the Union government on has launched a mobile application — Jaldoot. About Jaldoot App Jaldoot is…
Context In what may be termed as an uncommon ocean phenomenon, the prevailing La Ninã conditions over the equatorial Pacific Ocean have entered the third consecutive year. The current La Ninã phase has…
Context States of Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois in the US were hit by a storm system called a derecho. About Derecho As the storm rolled in, winds gusting at around…
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