Month: April 2023

International Organizations

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International organizations

International Organizations: Introduction: International organizations are also known as intergovernmental organizations. An international organization is a stable set of norms and rules meant to govern the behavior of states and other actors in the International system. The list of important  International Organizations is given in the table: Organizations Estd. Headquarters President/General Secretary Members International Labour Organization (ILO) 1919 Geneva Gilbert Houngbo – 11th  director general of ILO. (assumed office – 1 Oct. 2022) 187 (Tonga-187th member) Interpol 1923 Lyons (France) Nasser Al-Raisi (Chaiman) 194 (Kiribati-194th member) Commonwealth 1931 London (UK)…

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States and Capitals in India

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States and Capitals in India

States and Capitals in India India, a union of states, is a Sovereign, Secular, Democratic Republic with a Parliamentary system of Government. There are 28 states and 8 Union territories in the country. The table contains the States and Capitals In India and related important facts: State Capital Date of establishment Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh is Popularly known as the ‘Land of the Dawn-lit-Mountains’. Arunachal Pradesh is located between 26.28° N and 29.30° N and 91.20° E and 97.30° E longitude. The state has an area of 83,743 km2. Largest…

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Cloud Seeding

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cloud seeding

Cloud Seeding Vincent Schaefer an American chemist and meteorologist discovered the principle of cloud seeding in 1946. It is a type of weather modification technique that improves the ability of clouds to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds. These nuclei provide a base for snowflakes to form. The newly formed snowflakes quickly grow and fall from the clouds back to the surface of the earth, increasing snowpack and streamflow. In cloud seeding, the spreading of either dry ice or silver iodide…

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Koeppens’s Scheme of Classification of Climate:

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Koeppens’s Scheme of Classification of Climate

Koeppens’s Scheme of Classification of Climate: The empirical climate classification scheme was developed by Koeppen in 1918. Koeppen’s scheme is the most widely used classification of climate. Koeppen identified a close relationship between the distribution of vegetation and climate. Koeppen selected certain values of temperature and precipitation and related them to the distribution of vegetation and used these values for classifying the climates. Koeppens’s Scheme of Classification of Climate/this empirical classification is based on mean annual and mean monthly temperature and precipitation data. Koeppen introduced the use of capital and small…

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