Abstract
Utilizing the monthly rainfall of 306 stations with fairly even distribution over India and rational criteria, the incidence of droughts and floods over the country and regions thereof in the summer monsoon season has been examined for the period 1871–1980.
Droughts over India were severe in four years: 1877, 1899, 1918 and 1972. Floods over India were severe in three years: 1878, 1892 and 1961. The occurrence of droughts and floods has been found to be random. The only years when none of the regions of India experienced either drought or flood were 1930, 1931 and 1957. Having identified individual years of monsoon rainfall excess and deficit, differences in depression track behaviour and in the location of the monsoon trough were examined.
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Mooley, D.A., Parthasarathy, B. (1983). Droughts and Floods over India in Summer Monsoon Seasons 1871–1980. In: Street-Perrott, A., Beran, M., Ratcliffe, R. (eds) Variations in the Global Water Budget. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6954-4_18
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