Hazards of Floods and Droughts in India

摘要: India is a land of monsoons which the South-West Monsoon wet monsoon while North-East dry one. Yet rainfall produced by them not uniformly distributed either in space or time therefore leads to occurrence floods and droughts different parts country from time. While are confined restricted areas based on distribution major river systems, only account failures following late onset early withdrawal both monsoons. The paper describes main features annual seasonal over discusses their implications droughts. References made storm surges coastal as well flash due dam failures.