Open AccessAreal extent of southwest monsoon droughts in India
Author(s) -
C.J. George,
V. P. Abhyankar,
G. S. Rentala
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
mausam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.243
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 0252-9416
DOI - 10.54302/mausam.v26i2.2158
Subject(s) - monsoon , climatology , geography , environmental science , meteorology , geology
A real extent of droughts in India is studied by computing linear correlation between the southwest monsoon rainfall of a particular station (master station), when it gets below-median rainfall, and the corresponding monsoon rainfall of each of 120 other stations forming a well-distributed network over the country. This is done for 12 master stations selected over different parts of the country. The study shows that droughts in the western parts of the country have comparatively greater areal extent.