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Sea-breeze-initiated rainfall over the east coast of India during the Indian southwest monsoon 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Matthew Simpson Hari Warrior Sethu Raman P. A. Aswathanarayana U. C. Mohanty R. Suresh 《Natural Hazards》2007,42(2):401-413
Sea-breeze-initiated convection and precipitation have been investigated along the east coast of India during the Indian southwest
monsoon season. Sea-breeze circulation was observed on approximately 70–80% of days during the summer months (June–August)
along the Chennai coast. Average sea-breeze wind speeds are greater at rural locations than in the urban region of Chennai.
Sea-breeze circulation was shown to be the dominant mechanism initiating rainfall during the Indian southwest monsoon season.
Approximately 80% of the total rainfall observed during the southwest monsoon over Chennai is directly related to convection
initiated by sea-breeze circulation. 相似文献
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Analysis of fifty four (1951–2004) years of daily energetics of zonal waves derived from NCEP/NCAR wind (u and υ) data and daily rainfall received over the Indian landmass (real time data) during southwest monsoon season (1 June–30 September)
indicate that energetics (momentum transport and kinetic energy) of lower tropospheric ultra-long waves (waves 1 and 2) of
low latitudes hold a key to intra-seasonal variability of monsoon rainfall over India.
Correlation coefficient between climatology of daily (122 days) energetics of ultra-long waves and climatology of daily rainfall
over Indian landmass is 0.9. The relation is not only significant but also has a predictive potential. The normalised plot
of both the series clearly indicates that the response period of rainfall to the energetics is of 5–10 days during the onset
phase and 4–7 days during the withdrawal phase of monsoon over India. During the established phase of monsoon, both the series
move hand-in-hand. Normalised plot of energetics of ultra-long waves and rainfall for individual year do not show marked deviation
with respect to climatology. These results are first of its kind and are useful for the short range forecast of rainfall over
India. 相似文献
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Nityanand Singh 《Journal of Earth System Science》1995,104(1):1-36
Large-scale interannual variability of the northern summer southwest monsoon over India is studied by examining its variation
in the dry area during the period 1871–1984. On the mean summer monsoon rainfall (June to September total) chart the 800 mm
isohyet divides the country into two nearly equal halves, named as dry area (monsoon rainfall less than 800 mm) and wet area
(monsoon rainfall greater than 800 mm). The dry area/wet area shows large variations from one year to another, and is considered
as an index for assessing the large-scale performance of the Indian summer monsoon. Statistical and fluctuation characteristics
of the summer monsoon dry area (SMDA) are reported.
To identify possible causes of variation in the Indian summer monsoon, the correlation between the summer monsoon dry area
and eleven regional/global circulation parameters is examined. The northern hemisphere surface air temperature, zonal/hemispheric/global
surface air and upper air temperatures, Southern Oscillation, Quasi-biennial oscillation of the equatorial lower stratosphere,
April 500-mb ridge along 75°E over India, the Indian surface air temperature and the Bombay sea level pressure showed significant
correlation.
A new predictor parameter that is preceding year mean monsoon rainfall of a few selected stations over India has been suggested
in the present study. The stations have been selected by applying the objective technique ‘selecting a subset of few gauges
whose mean monsoon rainfall of the preceding year has shown the highest correlation coefficient (CC) with the SMDA’. Bankura
(Gangetic West Bengal), Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) and Anupgarh (West Rajasthan) entered the selection showing a CC of 0.724.
Using a dependent sample of 1951–1980 a predictive model (multiple CC = 0.745) has also been developed for the SMDA with preceding
year mean monsoon rainfall of the three selected stations and the sea level pressure tendency at Darwin from Jan–Feb to Mar–May
as independent parameters. 相似文献
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Anomalous behaviour of the Indian summer monsoon 2009 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The Indian subcontinent witnessed a severe monsoon drought in the year 2009. India as a whole received 77% of its long period
average during summer monsoon season (1 June to 30 September) of 2009, which is the third highest deficient all India monsoon
season rainfall year during the period 1901–2009. Therefore, an attempt is made in this paper to study the characteristic
features of summer monsoon rainfall of 2009 over the country and to investigate some of the possible causes behind the anomalous
behaviour of the monsoon. 相似文献
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The time evolution of atmospheric parameters on intraseasonal time scale in the eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) is studied during
the summer monsoon seasons of 1998–2003 using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager (TMI) data. This is done
using the spectral and wavelet analysis. Analysis shows that over EAS, total precipitable water vapour (TWV) and sea surface
wind speed (SWS) have a periodicity of 8–15 days, 15–30 days and 30–60 days during the monsoon season. Significant power is
seen in the 8–15-day time scale in TWV during onset and retreat of the summer monsoon. Analysis indicates that the timings
of the intensification of 8–15, 15–30, and 30–60 days oscillations have a profound effect on the evolution of the daily rainfall
over west coast of India. The positive and negative phases of these oscillations are directly related to the active and dry
spells of rainfall along the west coast of India. The spectral analysis shows interannual variation of TWV and SWS. Heavy
rainfall events generally occur over the west coast of India when positive phases of both 30–60 days and 15–30 days modes
of TWV and SWS are simultaneously present. 相似文献
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The summer monsoon rainfall over Orissa, a state on the eastern coast of India, is more significantly related than Indian
summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) to the cyclonic disturbances developing over the Bay of Bengal. Orissa experiences floods and
droughts very often due to variation in the characteristics of these disturbances. Hence, an attempt was made to find out
the inter-annual variability in the rainfall over Orissa and the frequencies of different categories of cyclonic disturbances
affecting Orissa during monsoon season (June–September). For this purpose, different statistical characteristics, such as
mean, coefficient of variation, trends and periodicities in the rainfall and the frequencies of different categories of cyclonic
disturbances affecting Orissa, were analysed from 100 years (1901–2000) of data. The basic objective of the study was to find
out the contribution of inter-annual variability in the frequency of cyclonic disturbances to the inter-annual variability
of monsoon rainfall over Orissa.
The relationship between summer monsoon rainfall over Orissa and the frequency of cyclonic disturbances affecting Orissa shows
temporal variation. The correlation between them has significantly decreased since the 1950s. The variation in their relationship
is mainly due to the variation in the frequency of cyclonic disturbances affecting Orissa. The variability of both rainfall
and total cyclonic disturbances has been above normal since the 1960s, leading to more floods and droughts over Orissa during
recent years. The inter-annual variability of seasonal rainfall over Orissa and the frequency of cyclonic disturbances affecting
Orissa during monsoon season show a quasi-biennial oscillation period of 2–2.8 years. There is least impact of El Nino southern
oscillation (ENSO) on inter-annual variability of both the seasonal rainfall over Orissa and the frequencies of monsoon depressions/total
cyclonic disturbances affecting Orissa. 相似文献
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Analysis of monthly momentum transport of zonal waves at 850 hPa for the period 1979 to 1993, between ‡S and ‡N for January
to April, using zonal (u) and meridional (v) components of wind taken from the ECMWF reanalysis field, shows a positive correlation (.1% level of significance) between
the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (June through September) and the momentum transport of wave zero TM(0) over latitudinal
belt between 25‡S and 5‡N (LB) during March. Northward (Southward) TM(0) observed in March over LB subsequently leads to a
good (drought) monsoon season over India which is found to be true even when the year is marked with the El-Nino event. Similarly
a strong westerly zone in the Indian Ocean during March, indicates a good monsoon season for the country, even if the year
is marked with El-Nino. The study thus suggests two predictors, TM(0) over LB and the strength of westerly zone in the Indian
Ocean during March. 相似文献
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On the impacts of ENSO and Indian Ocean dipole events on sub-regional Indian summer monsoon rainfall 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The relative impacts of the ENSO and Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) events on Indian summer (June–September) monsoon rainfall at
sub-regional scales have been examined in this study. GISST datasets from 1958 to 1998, along with Willmott and Matsuura gridded
rainfall data, all India summer monsoon rainfall data, and homogeneous and sub-regional Indian rainfall datasets were used.
The spatial distribution of partial correlations between the IOD and summer rainfall over India indicates a significant impact
on rainfall along the monsoon trough regions, parts of the southwest coastal regions of India, and also over Pakistan, Afghanistan,
and Iran. ENSO events have a wider impact, although opposite in nature over the monsoon trough region to that of IOD events.
The ENSO (IOD) index is negatively (positively) correlated (significant at the 95% confidence level from a two-tailed Student
t-test) with summer monsoon rainfall over seven (four) of the eight homogeneous rainfall zones of India. During summer, ENSO
events also cause drought over northern Sri Lanka, whereas the IOD events cause surplus rainfall in its south. On monthly
scales, the ENSO and IOD events have significant impacts on many parts of India. In general, the magnitude of ENSO-related
correlations is greater than those related to the IOD. The monthly-stratified IOD variability during each of the months from
July to September has a significant impact on Indian summer monsoon rainfall variability over different parts of India, confirming
that strong IOD events indeed affect the Indian summer monsoon.
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Karumuri AshokEmail: |
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D. R. Pattanaik 《Natural Hazards》2007,40(3):635-646
Between 1941 and 2002 there has been a decreasing trend in the frequency of monsoon disturbances (MDs) during the summer monsoon
season (June–September). This downwards trend is significant at the 99.9% level for the main monsoon phase (July–August) and
the withdrawal phase (September); however, it is not significant during the onset phase (June). The variability in rainfall
over the homogeneous regions of India on the sub-seasonal scale also shows a significant decreasing trend with respect to
the amount of rainfall over Northwest India (NWI) and Central India (CEI) during all three phases of the monsoon. Meteorological
observations reveal that there has been an eastward shift of the rainfall belt with time over the Indian region on the seasonal
scale and that this shift is more prominent during the withdrawal phase. This decreasing trend in MDs together with its restricted
westerly movement seem to be directly related to the decreasing trend in rainfall over CEI during both the main monsoon and
withdrawal phases and over NWI during the withdrawal phase. The low-level circulation anomalies observed during two periods
(period-I: 1951–1976; period-ii: 1977–2002) are in accordance with the changes in rainfall distribution, with comparatively
more (less) rainfall falling over NWI, CEI and Southern Peninsular India (SPI) during period-I (period-ii), and are accompanied
by a stronger (weaker) monsoon circulation embedded with an anomalous cyclonic (anti-cyclonic) circulation over CEI during
the main monsoon and withdrawal phases. During the onset phase, completely opposite circulation anomalies are observed during
both periods, and these are associated with more (less) rainfall over NWI, CEI and SPI during period-ii (period-I). 相似文献
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M. R. Ramesh Kumar S. Sathyendranath N. K. Viswambharan L. V. Gangadhara Rao 《Journal of Earth System Science》1986,95(3):435-446
Using the satellite derived sea surface temperature (SST) data for 1979 (bad monsoon) and 1983 (good monsoon), the SST variability for two contrasting monsoon seasons is studied. The study indicates that large negative anomalies off the Somali and Arabian coasts are associated with good monsoon rainfall over India. The strong monsoonal cooling in these regions can be attributed to strong low level winds and intense upwelling. The reappearance of 27°C isotherm off Somali coast in May/June coincides with the onset of southwest monsoon over India. Further, the influence of zonal anomaly of SST off Somalia Coast (SCZASST) and Central Indian Ocean Zonal Anomaly of SST (CIOZASST) with monsoon rainfall over India is brought out. The former is negatively related to the monsoon rainfall over western and central parts of India, whilst CIOZASST is positively related. 相似文献
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In this article, the interannual variability of certain dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of various sectors in the
Asian summer monsoon domain was examined during the onset phase over the south Indian peninsula (Kerala Coast). Daily average
(0000 and 1200 UTC) reanalysis data sets of the National Centre for Environmental Prediction/National Centre for Atmospheric
Research (NCEP/NCAR) for the period 1948–1999 were used. Based on 52 years onset date of the Indian summer monsoon, we categorized
the pre-onset, onset, and post-onset periods (each an average of 5 days) to investigate the interannual variability of significant
budget terms over the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Indian peninsula. A higher difference was noticed in low-level kinetic
energy (850 hPa) and the vertically integrated generation of kinetic energy over the Arabian Sea from the pre-onset, onset,
and post-onset periods. Also, significant changes were noticed in the net tropospheric moisture and diabatic heating over
the Arabian Sea and Indian peninsula from the pre-onset to the post-onset period. It appears that attaining the magnitude
of 40 m2 s−2 and then a sharp rise in kinetic energy at 850 hPa is an appropriate time to declare the onset of the summer monsoon over
India. In addition to a sufficient level of net tropospheric moisture (40 mm), a minimum strength of low-level flow is needed
to trigger convective activity over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. An attempt was also made to develop a location-specific
prediction of onset dates of the summer monsoon over India based on energetics and basic meteorological parameters using multivariate
statistical techniques. The regression technique was developed with the data of May and June for 42 years (1948–1989) and
validated with 10 years NCEP reanalysis from 1990 to 1999. It was found that the predicted onset dates from the regression
model are fairly in agreement with the observed onset dates obtained from the Indian Meteorology Department. 相似文献
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Active and break spells of the Indian summer monsoon 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
In this paper, we suggest criteria for the identification of active and break events of the Indian summer monsoon on the basis
of recently derived high resolution daily gridded rainfall dataset over India (1951–2007). Active and break events are defined
as periods during the peak monsoon months of July and August, in which the normalized anomaly of the rainfall over a critical
area, called the monsoon core zone exceeds 1 or is less than −1.0 respectively, provided the criterion is satisfied for at
least three consecutive days. We elucidate the major features of these events. We consider very briefly the relationship of
the intraseasonal fluctuations between these events and the interannual variation of the summer monsoon rainfall. 相似文献
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In this paper, the simultaneous effect of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Southern Oscillation (SO) on monsoon rainfall
over different homogeneous regions/subdivisions of India is studied. The simultaneous effect of both NAO and SO on Indian
summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is more important than their individual impact because both the oscillations exist simultaneously
throughout the year. To represent the simultaneous impact of NAO and SO, an index called effective strength index (ESI) has
been defined on the basis of monthly NAO and SO indices. The variation in the tendency of ESI from January through April has
been analyzed and reveals that when this tendency is decreasing, then the ESI value throughout the monsoon season (June–September)
of the year remains negative andvice versa. This study further suggests that during the negative phase of ESI tendency, almost all subdivisions of India show above-normal
rainfall andvice versa. The correlation analysis indicates that the ESI-tendency is showing an inverse and statistically significant relationship
with rainfall over 14 subdivisions of India. Area wise, about 50% of the total area of India shows statistically significant
association. Moreover, the ESI-tendency shows a significant relationship with rainfall over north west India, west central
India, central north east India, peninsular India and India as a whole. Thus, ESI-tendency can be used as a precursor for
the prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall on a smaller spatial scale. 相似文献
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This paper investigates the characteristic features of the coastal atmospheric boundary layer (CABL) along the west coast
of India during the south-west monsoon (SWM) 2002. Extensive surface and upper-air findings were obtained during the same
period from the Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX; 15th June to 15th August 2002) 2002. The operational general circulation
model (GCM) of the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) was used in this study to see the spatial
variation of the CABL during two specific convective episodes that led to heavy rainfall along the west coast of India. The
impact of a non-local closure (NLC) scheme employed in the NCMRWF GCM was carried out in simulating the CABL. The same episodes
were also simulated using a similar parameterization scheme employed in the high resolution mesoscale modelling system (MM5).
The diurnal variation of CABL is better represented from MM5 simulation. Comparing the MM5 simulation with that of the coarser
grid NCMRWF GCM, we observed that the NCMRWF GCM underestimates the values of both latent heat flux (LHF) and the coastal
atmospheric boundary layer height (CABLH). Results from MM5 therefore indicate that the best way to move forward in addressing
the short-comings of coarse grid-scale GCMs is to provide a parameterization of the diurnal effects associated with convection
processes. 相似文献
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The statistical relationship between the summer monsoon rainfall over all India, northwest India and peninsular India, onset
dates of monsoon and the index of mid latitude, (35° to 70°N) meridional circulation at 500 hPa level over different sectors
and hemisphere based on 19 years (1971–1989) data, have been examined. The results indicate that (i) the summer monsoon rainfalls
over all India, northwest India and peninsular India show a significant inverse relationship with the strength of meridional
index during previous January over sector 45°W to 90°E. (ii) The summer monsoon rainfalls over all India and peninsular India
show a significant inverse relationship with the strength of meridional index during previous December over sector 90°E to
160°E, (iii) The summer monsoon rainfall over northwest India shows a significant direct relationship with the meridional
index during previous May over sector 160°E to 45°W.
Significant negative relationships are also observed between the meridional circulation indices of previous October (sector
3 and 4), previous December (sectors 1, 3 and 4), previous winter season (sector 3 and 4) and the onset dates of summer monsoon
over India. The meridional circulation index thus can have some possible use for long range forecasting of monsoon rainfall
over all India, northwest India and peninsular India, as well as the onset dates of monsoon. 相似文献
16.
A new stability index based on atmospheric refractivity at ~500 hPa level and surface measurements of temperature, pressure
and humidity is formulated. The new index named here as refractivity based lifted index (RLI) is designed to give similar
results as traditionally used lifted index derived from radiosonde profiles of temperature, pressure and humidity. The formulation
of the stability index and its comparison with the traditional temperature profile based lifted index (LI) is discussed. The
index is tested on COSMIC radio occultation derived refractivity profiles over Indian region. The forecast potential of the
new index for rainfall on 2°×2° latitude–longitude spatial scale with lead time of 3–24 hours indicate that the refractivity
based lifted index works better than the traditional temperature based lifted index for the Indian monsoon region. Decreasing
values of RLI tend to give increasing rainfall probabilities. 相似文献
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The characteristic features of the marine boundary layer (MBL) over the Bay of Bengal during the southwest monsoon and the
factors influencing it are investigated. The Bay of Bengal and Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX) carried out during July–August
1999 is the first observational experiment under the Indian Climate Research Programme (ICRP). A very high-resolution data
in the vertical was obtained during this experiment, which was used to study the MBL characteristics off the east coast of
India in the north and south Bay of Bengal. Spells of active and suppressed convection over the Bay were observed, of which,
three representative convective episodes were considered for the study. For this purpose a one-dimensional multi-level PBL
model with a TKE-ε closure scheme was used. The soundings, viz., the vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, zonal and
meridional component of wind, obtained onboard ORV Sagar Kanya and from coastal stations along the east coast are used for
the study. The temporal evolution of turbulent kinetic energy, marine boundary layer height (MBLH), sensible and latent heat
fluxes and drag coefficient of momentum are simulated for different epochs of monsoon and monsoon depressions during BOBMEX-99.The
model also generates the vertical profiles of potential temperature, specific humidity, zonal and meridional wind. These simulated
values compared reasonably well with the observations available from BOBMEX. 相似文献
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D GAYATRI VANI S RAMBABU M RAJASEKHAR G V RAMA B V APPARAO A K GHOSH 《Journal of Earth System Science》2011,120(4):755-771
The Indian northeast monsoon is inherently chaotic in nature as the rainfall realised in the peninsular India depends substantially
on the formation and movement of low-pressure systems in central and southwest Bay of Bengal and on the convective activity
which is mainly due to the moist north-easterlies from Bay of Bengal. The objective of this study is to analyse the performance
of the PSU-NCAR Mesoscale Model Version 5 (MM5), for northeast monsoon 2008 that includes tropical cyclones – Rashmi, Khai-Muk
and Nisha and convective events over Sriharikota region, the rocket launch centre. The impact of objective analysis system
using radiosonde observations, surface observations and Kalpana-1 satellite derived Atmospheric Motion Wind Vectors (AMV)
is also studied. The performance of the model is analysed by comparing the predicted parameters like mean sea level pressure
(MSLP), intensity, track and rainfall with the observations. The results show that the model simulations could capture MSLP
and intensity of all the cyclones reasonably well. The dependence of the movement of the system on the environmental flow
is clearly observed in all the three cases. The vector displacement error and percentage of improvement is calculated to study
the impact of objective data analysis on the movement and intensity of the cyclone. 相似文献
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The impact of different land-surface parameterisation schemes for the simulation of monsoon circulation during a normal monsoon
year over India has been analysed. For this purpose, three land-surface parameterisation schemes, the NoaH, the Multi-layer
soil model and the Pleim-Xiu were tested using the latest version of the regional model (MM5) of the Pennsylvania State University
(PSU)/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) over the Indian summer monsoon region. With respect to different land-surface
parameterisation schemes, latent and sensible heat fluxes and rainfall were estimated over the Indian region. The sensitivity
of some monsoon features, such as Somali jet, tropical easterly jet and mean sea level pressure, is discussed. Although some
features of the Indian summer monsoon, such as wind and mean sea level pressure, were fairly well-simulated by all three schemes,
many differences were seen in the simulation of the typical characteristics of the Indian summer monsoon. It was noticed from
the results that the features of the Indian summer monsoon, such as strength of the low-level westerly jet, the cross-equatorial
flow and the tropical easterly jet were better simulated by NoaH compared with verification analysis than other land-surface
schemes. It was also observed that the distribution of precipitation over India during the peak period of monsoon (July) was
better represented with the use of the NoaH scheme than by other schemes.
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Objective analysis of daily rainfall at the resolution of 1° grid for the Indian monsoon region has been carried out merging
dense land rainfall observations and INSAT derived precipitation estimates. This daily analysis, being based on high dense
rain gauge observations was found to be very realistic and able to reproduce detailed features of Indian summer monsoon. The
inter-comparison with the observations suggests that the new analysis could distinctly capture characteristic features of
the summer monsoon such as north-south oriented belt of heavy rainfall along the Western Ghats with sharp gradient of rainfall
between the west coast heavy rain region and the rain shadow region to the east, pockets of heavy rainfall along the location
of monsoon trough/low, over the east central parts of the country, over north-east India, along the foothills of Himalayas
and over the north Bay of Bengal. When this product was used to assess the quality of other available standard climate products
(CMAP and ECMWF reanalysis) at the gird resolution of 2.5°, it was found that the orographic heavy rainfall along Western
Ghats of India was poorly identified by them. However, the GPCC analysis (gauge only) at the resolution of 1° grid closely
discerns the new analysis. This suggests that there is a need for a higher resolution analysis with adequate rain gauge observations
to retain important aspects of the summer monsoon over India. The case studies illustrated show that the daily analysis is
able to capture large-scale as well as mesoscale features of monsoon precipitation systems. This study with data of two seasons
(2001 and 2003) has shown sufficiently promising results for operational application, particularly for the validation of NWP
models. 相似文献