- The scientists at Climate Research and Services (CRS) office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, have launched India’s first Climate Hazards vulnerability atlas.
- The atlas is based on 14 extreme weather events and the risks they pose to the local population, livelihoods and economy of each district.
- The atlas features extreme rainfall, drought, coldwave, heatwave, dust storms, hail storm, thunderstorm, cyclones, snowfall, lightning, winds and fog.
- The Atlas aims to assist the users of the Disaster Management Sector in identifying vulnerable districts to take adaptive and preventive measures.
- It has framed the Sunderbans in West Bengal, neighbouring district of Odisha and Ramnathpuram, Pudukottai and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu as the most vulnerable to high storms surges of as much as 8.5 to 13.7 metres that are induced by the cyclones.
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