Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – January 2014

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The highest recorded rainfall in the past five years for southern islands was observed in mid-December. This is the third high rainfall event observed this year in this region. Due to this a surplus rainfall was observed in southern Maldives in contrast to the rainfall deficit observed in northern and central islands. The sea surface temperature has become neutral around Maldives but in the rest of the Indian Ocean there is warming to South of the Equator.  

Image: Sea Surface Temperature- 04 December 2013

Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – December 2013

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Rainfall deficit persists in all of Maldives. The seas around Maldives are warmer than usual, and warm than usual air temperatures are also likely for the three months ahead. ENSO conditions remain neutral and a continuation of neutral conditions is expected through-out the first quarter of 2014. When the whole year is considered, less than average rainfall was observed during 2013 compared to the average of previous 8 years.  

Image: Sea Surface Temperature- 04 December 2013

Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – November 2013

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The Central Maldivian islands continue to show a rainfall deficit. The seas around Maldives are warmer than usual, and warm than usual air temperatures are also likely for the three months ahead.  

Image: Sea Surface Temperature- 06 Nov 2013

Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – October 2013

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Rainfall deficit has abated in the Southern Islands, but persists weakly in the Northern Islands and significantly in the Central Islands. Warmer temperatures prevail in the equatorial Indian Ocean sea surface.  

Image: Rainfall Deficit in Southern Maldives

Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – July 2013

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After a much wetter May than average, rainfall across Maldives has been drier than average for July and August. There still is a cumulative rainfall anomaly compared to the past 8 years’ average in Northern and Central islands in Maldives while in Southern islands it is close to average cumulative rainfall. Sea Surface Temperature around Maldives has remained in a climatological state during the past two weeks but In the larger Indian Ocean there is a negative dipole.  

Image: Observed rainfall (Top) and Rainfall Deficit in North Maldives (Bottom)

Experimental Climate Monitoring and Prediction for Maldives – June 2013

Art Confronts Maldives’ Climate Change Controversy

Source: Inter Press Service News Agency

In the Maldives, a nation of small islands threatened by rising sea levels, the topic of climate change is a controversial one. Credit: Nattu/CC by 2.0

On the quay leading to the Arsenale exhibition complex, a block of ice melts in a rare blast of spring warmth. Elsewhere in the city, coconuts were bob on the choppy waters of the canals during the opening week of the 55th Venice Biennale.