Probabilities of excess and deficient southwest monsoon rainfall over different meteorological sub-divisions of India |
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Authors: | D R Kothawale A A Munot |
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Institution: | (1) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 411 008 Pune, India |
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Abstract: | Temporal distribution of southwest monsoon (June –September) rainfall is very useful for the country’s agriculture and food
grain production. It contributes more than 75% of India’s annual rainfall. In view of this, an attempt has been made here
to understand the performance of the monthly rainfall for June, July, August and September when the seasonal rainfall is reported
as excess, deficient or normal. To know the dependence of seasonal rainfall on monthly rainfall, the probabilities of occurrence
of excess, deficient and normal monsoon when June, July, August and also June + July and August + September rainfall is reported
to be excess or deficient, are worked out using the long homogenous series of 124 years (1871-–1994) data of monthly and seasonal
rainfall of 29 meteorological sub-divisions of the plain regions of India.
In excess monsoon years, the average percentage contribution of each monsoon month to the long term mean (1871–1994) seasonal
rainfall (June –September) is more than that of the normal while in the deficient years it is less than normal. This is noticed
in all 29 meteorological sub-divisions. From the probability analysis, it is seen that there is a rare possibility of occurrence
of seasonal rainfall to be excess/deficient when the monthly rainfall of any month is deficient/excess. |
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Keywords: | Monsoon rainfall excess years deficient years |
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