Study of the microphysical properties associated with the Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation as seen from the TRMM observations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 897-910

  Halder, M ^a   Mukhopadhyay, P ^a   Halder, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Convective processes)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ICE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84861802962     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-30-897-2012     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Baker, M. B.: Cloud microphysics and climate, Science. 276; 1072-1078: 1997.
2. Bony, S., Dufresne, J.-L., Treut, H. Le., Morerte, J. J., and Senior, C.: On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes, Clim. Dynam., 22, 71-86, doi:10.1007/S00382-003-0369-6, 2004. (Pubitemid 38550216)
3. Chattopadhyay, R., Goswami, B. N., Sahai, A. K., and Fraedrich, K.: Role of stratiform rainfall in modifying the northward propagation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D19114, doi:10.1029/ 2009JD011869, 2009.
4. Duchon, C. E.: Lanczos filtering in one and two dimensions, J. Appl. Meteorol., 18, 1016-1022, 1979.
5. Fu, X., Wang, B., Li, T., and McCreary, J. P.: Coupling between northward-propagating, intraseasonal oscillations and sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1733-1753, 2003. (Pubitemid 37135140)
6. Goswami, B. N.: South Asian monsoon, in: Intraseasonal Variability of the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System, edited by: Lau, W. K. M. and Waliser, D. E., Springer, Berlin, 19-61, 2005.
7. Goswami, B. N., Wu. G., and Yasunari, T.: Annual cycle, Intrasea-sonal Oscillations and Roadblock to seasonal predictability of the Asian summer monsoon, J. Climate, 19, 5078-5099, 2006. (Pubitemid 44712435)
8. Haddad, Z. S., Short, D. A., Durden, S. L., Hensley, E. Im. S., Grable, M. B., and Black, R. A.: A new parameterization of the rain drop size distribution, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 35, 532-539, doi:10.1109/36.581961, 1997a. (Pubitemid 127771091)
9. Haddad, Z. S., Smith, E. A., Kummerow, C., Iguchi, T, Farrar, M. R., Durden, S. L., Alves M., and Olson, W. S.: The TRMM 'day-1' radar/radiometer combined rain-profiling algorithm, J. Mete-orol. Soc. Jap., 75, 799-809, 1997b.
10. Houze Jr., R. A.: Cloud clusters and large-scale vertical motions in the tropics, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jap., 60, 396-410, 1982.
11. Houze Jr., R. A.: Stratiform precipitation in regions of convection: A meteorological paradox?, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78, 2179-2196, 1997. (Pubitemid 127483204)
12. Hoyos, C. D. and Webster, P. J.: The role of intraseasonal variability in the nature of Asian monsoon precipitation, J. Climate, 20, 4402-4424, 2007. (Pubitemid 47457037)
13. Hsu, H.-H. and Weng, C.-H.: Northwestward propagation of the in-traseasonal oscillation in the western North Pacific during the boreal summer: Structure and mechanism, J. Climate, 14, 3834-3850, 2001. (Pubitemid 33030844)
14. Hu, Y., Rodier, S., Xu, K.-M., Sun, W., Huang, J., Lin, B., Zhai, P., and Josset, D.: Occurrence, liquid water content, and fraction of supercooled water clouds from combined CALIOP/IIR/MODIS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00H34, doi:10.1029/2009JD012384, 2010.
15. Huffman, G. J.: The global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78, 5-20, 1997.
16. Huffman, G. J., Adler, R. F., Rudolf, B., Schneider, U., and Keehn, P. R.: Global precipitation estimates based on a technique for combining satellite-based estimates, rain gauge analysis, and NWP model precipitation information, J. Climate, 8, 1284-1295, 1995. (Pubitemid 26442033)
17. Iguchi, T., Kozu, T., Meneghini, R., Awaka, J., and Okamoto, K.: Rain-Profiling Algorithm for the TRMM Precipitation Radar, J. Appl. Meteorol., 39, 2038-2052, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(2001)040¡2038:RPAFTT¿2.0.CO;2, 2000. (Pubitemid 32214705)
18. Jiang, X., Li, T., and Wang, B.: Structures and mechanisms of the northward propagating boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation, J. Climate, 17, 1022-1039, 2004. (Pubitemid 38462915)
19. Jiang, X., Waliser, D. E., and Li, J.: Vertical cloud structures of the boreal summer intraseasonal variability based on CloudSat observations and ERA-interim reanalysis, Clim. Dynam., 36, 2219-2232, doi:10.1007/s00382-010- 0853-8,2010.
20. Johnson, R. H.: Partitioning tropical heat and moisture budgets into cumulus and 22 mesoscale components: Implications for cumulus parameterization, Mon. Weather Rev., 112, 1590-1601, 1984.
21. Kemball-Cook, S. and Wang, B.: Equatorial waves and air-sea interaction in the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation, J. Climate, 14, 2923-2942, 2001. (Pubitemid 33045292)
22. Krishna Kumar, K., Kamala, K., Rajagopalan, B., Hoerling, M. P., Eischeid, J. K., Patwardhan, S. K., Srinivasan, G., Goswami, B. N., and Nemanai, R.: The once and future pulse of Indian monsoonal climate, Clim. Dynam., 36, 2159-2170, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0974-0, 2011.
23. Kummerow, C., Hong, Y., Olson, W. S., Yang, S., Adler, R. F., McCollum, J., Ferraro, R., Petty, G., Shin, D-B., and Wil-heit, T. T.: The evolution of the Goddard profiling algorithm (GPROF) for rainfall estimation from passive microwave sensors, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 1801-1820, doi:10.1175/1520- 0450(2001)0402.0.CO:2, 2001. (Pubitemid 33127820)
24. Lau, W. K. M. and Waliser, D. E.: Intraseasonal Variability of the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System, Springer, Germany, 474 pp., 2005.
25. Lawrence, D. M. and Webster, P. J.: The boreal summer intrasea-sonal oscillation: Relationship between northward and eastward movement of convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1593-1606, 2002. (Pubitemid 34593236)
26. L'Ecuyer, T. S. and McGarragh, G.: A 10-year climatology of Tropical radiative Heating and Its Vertical Structure from TRMM Observations, J. Climate, 23, 3, doi:10.1175/2009JCL13018.1, Special TRMM Diabatic Heating Collection, 2010.
27. Madden, R. A. and Julian, P. R.: Observations of the 40-50 day tropical oscillation-A review, Mon. Weather Rev., 122, 814-837, 1994.
28. Pattanaik, D. R. and Kumar, A.: Prediction of summer monsoon rainfall over India using the NCEP climate forecast system, Clim. Dynam., 34, 557-572, doi:10.1007/s0.0382-009-0648-y, 2010.
29. Schumacher, C. and Houze Jr., R. A.: Stratiform rain in the tropics as seen by the TRMM precipitation Radar, J. Climate, 16, 1739-1756, 2003. (Pubitemid 36821687)
30. Shankar, D., Shetye, S. R., and Joseph, P. V.: Link between convection and meridional gradient of sea surface temperature in the Bay Of Bengal, J. Earth Syst. Sci., 116, 385-406, 2007.
31. Sikka, D. R. and Gadgil, S.: On the maximum cloud zone and the ITCZ over Indian longitudes during the southwest monsoon, Mon. Weather Rev., 108, 1840-1853, 1980.
32. Sperber, K. R., Slingo, J. M., and Annamalai, H.: Predictability and the relationship between subseasonal and interannual variability during the Asian Summer Monsoon, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 126, 2545-2574, 2000.
33. Waliser, D. E.: Intraseasonal Variations, The Asian Monsoon, edited by: Wang, B., Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 787, 2006.
34. Waliser, D. E., Jin, K., Kang, I.-S., Stern, W. F., Schubert, S. D., Wu, M. L. C., Lau, K. M., Lee, M. I., Krishnamurthy, V., Kitoh, A., Meehl, G. A., Galin, V. Y., Satyan, V., Mandke, S. K., Wu, G., Liu, Y., and Park, C. K.: AGCM simulations of intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian Summer Monsoon, Clim. Dynam., 21, 423-446, 2003. (Pubitemid 37519342)
35. Wang, B. and Xie, X.: A model for the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation, J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 72-86, 1997. (Pubitemid 127591545)
36. Wang, B., Webster, P. J., and Teng, H.: Anteceedents and selfinduc-tion of active-break south Asian monsoon unraveled by satellites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L04704, doi:10.1029/2004GL020996, 2005. (Pubitemid 40746874)
37. Webster, P. J.: Mechanisms of low-frequency variability: Surface hydrological effects, J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2110-2124, 1983.
38. Wylie, D. P., Menzel, W. P., and Strabala, K. I.: Four years of global cirrus cloud statistics using HIRS, J. Climate, 7, 1972-1986, 1994.
39. Yasunari, T.: Cloudiness fluctuation associated with the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jap., 57, 227-242, 1979.
40. Yuan, J. and Hartmann, D. L.: Spatial and Temporal dependence of clouds and their radiative impacts on the large scale vertical velocity profile, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D19201, doi:10.1029/2007JD009722, 2008.
41. Zhang, C.: The Madden-Julian Oscillation, Rev. Geophys., 43, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2004RG000158, 2005. (Pubitemid 41131993)
42. Zuluaga, M. D., Hoyos, C. D., and Webster, P. J.: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Latent Heating in the South Asian Monsoon Region, J. Climate, 23, 2010-2029, 2010.