A study on the characteristics of temperature inversions in active and break phases of Indian summer monsoon

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-20

  Muraleedharan, P M ^a   Mohankumar, K ^b   Sivakumar, K U ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Active and break phases; Convective clouds; Indian summer monsoon; Low level jet; Thermal inversion

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AND BREAK PHASES; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LOW LEVEL JET; THERMAL INVERSION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION;

EID: 84871436808     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Abish B., Mohanakumar K. Role of fine mode aerosols in modulating cloud properties over industrial locations in north India. Annales Geophysicae 2011, 29:1605-1612.
2. Aboobacker V.M., Vethamony P., Rashmi R. 'Shamal' swells in the Arabian Sea and their influence along the west coast of India. Geophysical Research Letters 2011, 38(3). 10.1029/ 2010GL045736.
3. Ghosh S.K., Pant M.C., Dewan B.N. Influence of Arabian Sea on the Indian summer monsoon. Tellus 1978, 30:117-125.
4. Kalnay E., Co-authors The NCEP/NCAR 40 Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1996, 77:437-471.
5. Krishnamurti T.N., Subrahmanyam D. The 30-50 day mode at 850mb during MONEX. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 1982, 39:2088-2095.
6. McBride J.L., Frank W.M. Relationships between stability and monsoon convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 1999, 56:24-36.
7. Muraleedharan P.M., Nisha P.G., Mohankumar K. Effect of January 15, 2010 Annular Solar Eclipse on Meteorological Parameters over Goa, India. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics 2011, 73:1988-1998.
8. Nair S.K., Parameswaran K., Rajiv K. Seven year satellite observation of the mean structures and variabilities in the regional aerosol distribution over the oceanic areas around the Indian subcontinent. Annales Geophysicae 2005, 23:2011-2030.
9. Rao V.P., Desai B.N. Origin of the south west monsoon current over the Indian Seas. Vayu Mandal 1971, 1:34-36.
10. Rao K.G., Desbois M., Roca R., Nakamura K. Upper tropospheric drying and the "transition to break" in the Indian summer monsoon during 1999. Geophysical Research Letters 2004, 31:L03206. 10.1029/2003GL018269.
11. Sijikumar, S., Mohanakumar, K., Joseph, P.V., 2011. Low level jetstream of Asian summer monsoon and its variability. Monograph, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Germany.
12. Sikka D.R., Gadgil S. On the maximum cloud zone and the ITCZ over Indian longitudes during the southwest monsoon. Monthly Weather Review 1980, 108:1840-1853.
13. Webster P.J., Magana V.O., Palmer T.N., Shukla J., Tomas R.A., Yanai M., Yasunari T. Monsoons: Processes, predictability and the prospects for prediction. Journal of Geophysical Research 1998, 103(C7):14,451-14,510.
14. Yasunari T A quasi stationary appearance of the 30-40 day period in the cloudiness fluctuation during the summer monsoon over India. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 1980, 58:225-229.