National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow Patron Shailesh Nayak Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India & Patron, SES President Rasik Ravindra Director, NCAOR, Goa & Chairman, SES Conveners D. D. Bhattacharaya, SES, Lucknow Satish C. Tripathi, SES, Lucknow Organising Secretaries Usha Bajpai, Department of Physics, University of Lucknow Venkatesh Dutta, Department of Environmental Science Babasheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow Treasurer A. C. Pande, SES, Lucknow National Advisory Committee: Organizing Committee: A. K. Moitra, Executive Secretary, A. K. Tangri INSA, New Delhi A.K.Singh A. K. Poothia, Director General, Archana Gupta Engineering Staff College of India, Hyderabad C. M. Nautiyal Akhilesh Gupta, Adviser, DST, New Delhi Deepali Kapoor Anil K. Gupta, Director, Wadia Institute of M. Yunus Himalayan Geology, Dehradun Mukund Sharma A.K.Varma, GM, HAL, Lucknow Munna Singh Atul Jindal, Project Director (M&E), JICA Project, Lucknow Neerja Jha B. K. Bansal, Adviser, MoES, New Delhi Neeteshwar Kumar Bibek Bandhopadhyay, Adviser, MNRE, New Delhi R. D. Tripathi C. P. Goyal, CCF, Lucknow R. P. Singh C. S. Nautiyal, Director, NBRI, Lucknow Rajiv Sinha K. C. Gupta, Director, IITR, Lucknow Rameshwar Bali M. Sudhakar, Adviser, MoES, New Delhi S. C. Burman N. C. Mehrotra, Director, BSIP, Lucknow Shyam M. Gupta R. R. Rashmi, Joint Secretary, MoEF, New Delhi S. P. Sharma Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CIMAP, Lucknow Santosh Kumar S. K. Panigrahi, DG, Carbon Minus India, New Delhi U. D. Misra S. R. Wate, Director, NEERI, Nagpur Satheesh C. Shenoi, Director, INCOIS, Hyderabad L.S.Jain, Dy. Director General, GSI, Lucknow T. S. Chakraborty, Director, CDRI, Lucknow ii National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow Contents INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1 UNDERSTANDING THE INDIAN MONSOON THROUGH FAUNAL AND GEOCHEMICAL SIGNALS SINCE THE EARLY MIOCENE Anil K. Gupta ................................................................................................................................ 3 ROLE OF ECO-GEOMORPHOLOGY IN MANAGEMENT OF LARGE RIVERS: FOCUS ON THE GANGA RIVER Rajiv Sinha ................................................................................................................................... 4 CONTROL OF CLIMATE AND TECTONICS AS EVIDENCED FROM GEOMORPHIC FEATURES OF NY-ALESUND REGION, ARCTIC Dhruv Sen Singh and Rasik Ravindra .......................................................................................... 5 CLIMATIC CHANGES AND ITS IMPACT ON THE HIMALAYAN GLACIERS R.K. Chaujar ................................................................................................................................. 6 ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SURGING GLACIERS: A CASE STUDY IN SHYOK VALLEY OF KARAKORAM HIMALAYAS, J&K STATE, INDIA Anjani K. Tangri, Ram Chandra & S.K.S. Yadav .......................................................................... 7 GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL PRODUCTIVITY FLUCTUATIONS FROM INDIAN ANTARCTIC POLAR FRONT OF SOUTHERN OCEAN Sunil Kumar Shukla, Xavier Crosta, M. Sudhakar, G.N. Nayak Olivier Ther ................................................................................................................................... 10 WAS MID-BRUNHES CLIMATE SHIFT (MBCS) A RESPONSE TO ECCENTRICITY MINIMUM REPEATED AT EVERY 400-KA IN THE LAST ~3 MILLION YEARS? S.M. Gupta, B. Nagender Nath and M.B.L. Mascarenhas-Pereira ............................................... 11 EVOLUTION OF SUBGLACIAL DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN HIMALAYAN GLACIERS DURING ABLATION SEASON-A CASE STUDY FROM BHAGIRATHI BASIN OF GLACIERS, GARHWAL HIMALAYA Amit Kumar, Pratap Singh and Naval Kishore .............................................................................. 12 CLIMATE-TECTONIC CONTROL ON ALLUVIAL FAN SEDIMENTATION IN THE PIEDMONT ZONE OF THE WEST GANGA PLAIN Pradeep K. Goswami and Jay K. Mishra ...................................................................................... 13 HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATIONS ALONG THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF INDIA: AS INFERRED FROM THE MULTI-PROXY ANALYSIS OF PALAEO-DEPOSITS OF MEENCHIL RIVER, KERALA, INDIA B. Ajay Kumar .............................................................................................................................. 14 CLIMATE AND SEISMICITY IN THE LAHAUL AND SPITI, NW HIMALAYA DURING THE LAST 25 KA: EVIDENCES FROM YUNAM BASIN, INDIA Archna Bohra and B.S. Kotlia ....................................................................................................... 15 SIMULATION RESULTS FROM A MATHEMATICAL OCEAN MODEL Anshu Prakash Mishra, S. Rai and A.C. Pandey .......................................................................... 16 iii National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow MONSOON AND CYCLONES: ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE M.R. Ramesh Kumar .................................................................................................................... 17 OCCURRENCE OF EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS IN GLOBAL WARMING SCENARIO AND SATELLITE INPUTS FOR PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES P. N. Mahajan, Amita A. Prabhu, M. Mahakur and Sathy Nair ..................................................... 18 WEAKENING OF SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL NORTHEAST INDIA Ram R. Yadav .............................................................................................................................. 19 TREND IN MID- LATITUDE WESTERLY TROUGH AT 500 H PA AND IN EXTREME SUMMER MONSOON OVER INDIAN REGION S.S. Dugam .................................................................................................................................. 20 LONG TERM TREND OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION OVER NORTHWEST HIMALAYAS Naresh Kumar and B.P. Yadav .................................................................................................... 20 IMPACT ANALYSIS OF CLIMATIC CHANGE ON RAINFALL PATTERN USING CLOUD IMAGES K. Murali, K.R. Jothi and S. Oswalt Manoj .................................................................................... 21 STRONG REDUCTION IN THE INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON AROUND 2 KYR BP: EVIDENCE FROM 18O IN STALAGMITES FROM ANDAMAN ISLANDS Amzad H. Laskar, M.G. Yadava and R. Ramesh ......................................................................... 22 ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TRENDS IN METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS OVER INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS DURING 1961-2008 A.K. Jaswal ................................................................................................................................... 23 RAINFALL PARTITIONING OF PATAN TALUKA (GUJARAT) FOR THE YEAR 2006 TO 2010 USING GEO-INFORMATICS BASED DATA FOR THORNTHWAITE MODEL AND SCS-CN MODEL Khushbu Bhojak, B. Naveenchandra, N. Srivastava, Khalid Mahmood and N.K. Sherasia ............................................................................................ 24 ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATIC TRENDS OVER SOUTHERN INDIA DURING THE LAST CENTURY Amit G. Dhorde ............................................................................................................................. 25 CLIMATE CHANGE AND TROPICAL CYCLONES IN THE INDIAN SEAS O.P. Singh .................................................................................................................................... 26 SOLAR IRRADIANCE FORCING OF TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE: AN UNDENIABLE FACT EVEN IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA Rajesh Agnihotri, Koushik Dutta and B.C. Arya ............................................................................ 27 LONG TERM CHANGES OF TOTAL OZONE COLUMN CONTENTS OVER TROPICAL STATION I.E., UDAIPUR Brij Mohan Vyas and Abhishek Saxenna ..................................................................................... 27 ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMPOSITE AEROSOL OPTICAL AND RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OVER DELHI IN THE GANGA BASIN A.K. Srivastava, Sachchidanand Singh, S. Tiwari and D.S. Bisht ................................................ 28 iv National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow STUDY OF CHARACTERISTICS OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS DURING DUST STORMS IN INDO-GANGETIC BASIN Sarvan Kumar, Sanjay Kumar and A.K. Singh ............................................................................. 29 VARIATION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH OVER VARANASI LOCATED IN INDO-GANGETIC BASIN S. Tiwari, Amit K. Singh and A.K. Singh ....................................................................................... 30 BIAEROSOL: A NEW RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE Ranjit Kumar, J.N. Srivastava and Poornima Jain ........................................................................ 30 STUDY OF PLASMA BUBBLES USING GPS DATA AT LOW LATITUDE GROUND STATION VARANASI S. Priyadarshi, S. Kumar and A.K. Singh ..................................................................................... 31 LONG-TERM TREND IN TROPOSPHERIC OZONE AND AEROSOL OVER THE NORTHEASTERN GANGETIC PLAIN, INDIA S.D. Patil, D.M. Lal and S.D. Ghude ............................................................................................ 32