Atmospheric and Oceanic: Mesoscale Processes

✍ Scribed by T. N. Krishnamurti, L. Stefanova, L. Watson, S. Pattnaik (auth.), Maithili Sharan, Sethu Raman (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Series: Pageoph Topical Volumes
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding, modeling and prediction of mesoscale processes in the atmosphere, ocean and environmental systems, have gained importance in the last decade or so. This is because of the availability of more sophisticated observational systems, provided by technological innovations and more realistic simulations using advanced dynamical models.

This volume contains many original findings on mesoscale processes in atmospheric and oceanic systems through mathematical modeling, numerical simulations and field experiments. These scientific papers examine and provide the latest developments on a range of topics that include tropical cyclones/hurricanes, mesoscale variability and modeling, seasonal monsoons and land surface processes including atmospheric boundary layer. This volume will be useful as a reading material in graduate level courses dealing with mesoscale systems, weather, climate, monsoon variability and boundary layer. The scientific community at large will find this book a useful addition to their personal and institutional libraries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-1425
Front Matter....Pages 1427-1427
Addressing Hurricane Intensity through Angular Momentum and Scale Energetics Approaches....Pages 1429-1441
On the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Indian Region Using a Synthetic Vortex Scheme in a Mesoscale Model....Pages 1443-1463
Numerical Simulation of Andhra Severe Cyclone (2003): Model Sensitivity to the Boundary Layer and Convection Parameterization....Pages 1465-1487
Front Matter....Pages 1489-1489
Impact of Doppler Radar Wind in Simulating the Intensity and Propagation of Rainbands Associated with Mesoscale Convective Complexes Using MM5-3DVAR System....Pages 1491-1509
Observation of Sea Breeze Front and its Induced Convection over Chennai in Southern Peninsular India Using Doppler Weather Radar....Pages 1511-1525
Variability of Convective Activity over the North Indian Ocean and its Associations with Monsoon Rainfall over India....Pages 1527-1545
Sensitivity of Mesoscale Surface Dynamics to Surface Soil and Vegetation Contrasts over the Carolina Sandhills....Pages 1547-1576
The Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data and its Impact on Rainfall Prediction along the West Coast of India during Monsoon 2002....Pages 1577-1591
An Experiment Using the High Resolution Eta and WRF Models to Forecast Heavy Precipitation over India....Pages 1593-1615
Sensitivity of Mesoscale Model Forecast During a Satellite Launch to Different Cumulus Parameterization Schemes in MM5....Pages 1617-1637
Front Matter....Pages 1639-1639
Experimental Seasonal Forecast of Monsoon 2005 Using T170L42 AGCM on PARAM Padma....Pages 1641-1665
Sensitivity of Indian Monsoon to Entrainment and Detrainment in Mass Flux Schemes....Pages 1667-1681
An Objective Approach for Prediction of Daily Summer Monsoon Rainfall over Orissa (India) due to Interaction of Mesoscale and Large-scale Synoptic Systems....Pages 1683-1698
Interactive Aspects of the Indian and the African Summer Monsoon Systems....Pages 1699-1716
The Preferred Structure of the Interannual Indian Monsoon Variability....Pages 1717-1732
Wintertime Seasonal Scale Simulation over Western Himalaya Using RegCM3....Pages 1733-1746
A Seasonal Statistical Evaluation of COAMPS ® over the Arabian Gulf Region....Pages 1747-1764
Influence of Pacific on Southern Indian Ocean Rossby Waves....Pages 1765-1785
Front Matter....Pages 1787-1787
A Simple Reclassification Method for Correcting Uncertainty in Land Use/Land Cover Data Sets Used with Land Surface Models....Pages 1789-1809
Analysis of Weak Wind Stable Conditions from the Observations of the Land Surface Processes Experiment at Anand in India....Pages 1811-1837
Front Matter....Pages 1787-1787
Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics during Indian Summer Monsoon using Observations from Monsoon Trough Boundary Layer Experiment at Jodhpur, India....Pages 1839-1859
Evolutionary Features of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL) over the Arabian Sea and the Onset of Monsoon over Kerala during ARMEX-2003....Pages 1861-1880

✦ Subjects

Meteorology/Climatology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Oceanography; Applied Geosciences; Geosciences, general