The northwestern Indian Ocean harbors a number of larger marine vertebrate taxa that warrant the investigation of genetic population structure given remarkable spatial heterogeneity in biological characteristics such as distribution, behavior, and morphology. Here, we investigate the genetic population structure of four commercially exploited shark species with different biological characterist...

Indian cobra (Naja naja) venom from different geographical locations varied in its composition and biochemical, pharmacological and immunological properties. Recently it has been shown that the variation in composition of venom from different geographical origin of Indian peninsula is due to the quantitative difference in the same components and also the presence of different biochemical entiti...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) are used with the consensus view that it has a minimum vertical accuracy of 16 m absolute error at 90% confidence (Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 9.73 m) world-wide. However, vertical accuracy of the data decreases with increase in slope and elevation due to presence of large outliers and voids. Therefore, studi...

Abstract This paper focuses on Asian monsoon projection with CMIP5 multi-model outputs. A large-scale herewith is defined as a vector field of vertically integrated moisture flux from the surface to 500 hPa. Results demonstrate that model ensemble mean underestimated summer and overestimated slightly winter over South Asia in both historical climate simulation for 2006–2015. The major bias drif...

Abstract The Madden‐Julian oscillation (MJO) significantly impacts North Atlantic hurricanes, with increased hurricane activity occurring when the MJO enhances convection over Africa and tropical Indian Ocean suppressed Pacific. Using data from 1905 to 2015, we find more cyclones (TCs) make landfall in continental United States convection. In addition, Western Pacific Hemisphere convection, TC ...

A high-resolution velocity and anisotropy model of the uppermost mantle under Hainan Island surrounding areas is obtained by a tomographic inversion 8192 Pn arrival-time data hand-picked from high-quality seismograms recorded at total 137 seismic stations our recently deployed HAVESArray portable network Chinese provincial stations. Our new shows obvious anisotropic structural features related ...

Humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, breeding off la Reunion Island (Indian Ocean) undergo large-scale seasonal migrations between summer feeding grounds near Antarctica and their reproductive winter grounds in the Indian Ocean. The main scope of the current study was to investigate chemical exposure of humpback whales breeding in the Indian Ocean by providing the first published data on th...