information of sundarban

Climate in the region is characterized by the southwest
monsoon (JuneeSeptember), north east monsoon or post-monsoon
(October to January) and pre-monsoon (FebruaryeMay); 70e80%
of annual rain fall occurs during the summer monsoon (South west
monsoon), resulting in high river discharge (2952 and 11,
897 m3 s 1), which gradually diminish to 900e1500 m3 s 1 during
non emonsoonal months (Mukhopadhyay et al., 2006).