Carrying Capacity Study of Teesta Basin in Sikkim - Affected ...

In the hills, thunderstorms often develop rather rapidly and are
sometimes accompanied with hail. The frequency of hail in the area is
maximum in April and May. Any mitigation that may be achieved would
be of great economic benefit to the fruit orchards of the Himalayan
terrain.
The simplified account of the distribution of precipitation, while
broadly true, is strongly influenced by local orographic effects. Actually,
the Himalayan orography is of complex type and it is difficult to carryout
any detailed study without having a dense net work of observatories
which is rare in the Eastern Himalayas. It is necessary to establish a
dense net work of meteorological stations as described in Chapter IV. A
detailed analysis on the very important feature of variation in
precipitation due to changes in elevation has not been feasible because
of the absence of observatories at different elevation under comparable
situations in the Teesta basin area in Sikkim.
The meteorology of the Teesta basin area in the Eastern
Himalayas along with the effects on weather conditions of Sikkim, is of
great scientific interest. It is necessary to record meteorological data
regularly for further research work on geomorphological problems of
this critical region. As mentioned earlier, the climatic conditions of the
basin including the cold environments of the upper most reaches are
quite important for the management of water resources and the socio-
economic development of the basin area. The area of interest should
not be merely the productive ecological sites with human settlements
like Lachen etc. but right upto the northern marginal (glacierised)
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