Mr Rudresh Chandra Suman is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He is an established educator and mentor . His area of expertise is Geography, Disaster Management, Environment and Ecology.
Class Description
Overview:
Structure of Indian Geography, Five pillars approach, Applied vs static geography, Relevance to climate change & water crisis, Climatology of India, Importance in UPSC, Focus on applied climatology, Climate of India, Monsoonal rhythm & character, Regional climatic variations (desert, tropical, subtropical, temperate), Factors Affecting Climate of India, Latitude, Himalayas (climatic divide), Distribution of land & sea (specific heat), Distance from sea (continentality), Altitude, Relief (orographic rainfall), Air Pressure & Wind Systems, Tibetan Plateau heating, Jet streams (STWJ, TEJ, Somali Jet), Western disturbances, Tropical cyclones, ENSO, IOD, MJO, Indian Monsoon – Basics, Meaning & origin (IMD definition), Seasonal winds with 180° reversal, Southwest monsoon, Northeast monsoon, Characteristics of Indian Monsoon, Sudden onset (monsoon burst), Breaks in monsoon, Gradual withdrawal, Spatial & temporal variability, Mechanism of Monsoon, Thermal concept (Edmund Halley), Dynamic theory (ITCZ shift – Flohn), Monsoon trough formation, Role of Tibetan Plateau, Tropical Easterly Jet Stream (TEJ), Suction mechanism, Intensity & distribution of rainfall, Role of Jet Streams, Subtropical Westerly Jet (STWJ), Monsoon burst mechanism, Precipitation by Indian Monsoon, Spatial variability, Temporal variability, Inter-seasonal, intra-seasonal, inter-annual variation, Branches of Southwest Monsoon, Arabian Sea branch, Bay of Bengal branch, Arabian Sea Branch, Western Ghats rainfall, Rain shadow regions, Palghat Gap effect, Bay of Bengal Branch, Eastern Himalayas rainfall, Central India rainfall, Aravalli rain-shadow effect, Rainfall Distribution in India, Western Ghats, Northeast India (Meghalaya), Rajasthan & leeward areas.
