Rainfall analysis for Indian monsoon region using the merged rain gauge observations and satellite estimates: Evaluation of monsoon rainfall features |
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Authors: | S K Roy Bhowmik Ananda K Das |
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Institution: | (1) India Meteorological Department, Lodi Road, New Delhi, 110 003, India |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Objective analysis monsoon precipitation system mesoscale features |
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