Introduction: Based on stratigraphy, events, ecology and climatology, the present time is assigned Anthropocene epoch due to dominance Homosapiens over geo- bio-hydro-aero spheres of mother earth during its accepted succeeding official 11700 years old Holocene from 1950. Asia’s largest shallow brackish water lagoon, Chilika housed about 1000km2, behind 64.3km barrier spit with multiple tidal in...

0022-1694/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.03.039 * Corresponding author. Fax: +814 863 7304. E-mail address: [email protected] (C.J. Duffy). It is generally accepted that the seasonal cycle of precipitation and temperature in cordillera of the western US exhibits a north–south pattern for annual, interannual and decadal time scales related to largescale climate pa...