Microphysical characteristics of clouds and precipitation during the Indian monsoon period over Kolkata region

Author

Chakravarty, Kaustav ; Raj, P. Ernest

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Tropical Meteorol., Pune, India

fYear

2011

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Characteristic properties of clouds during the pre-monsoon and monsoon season over the tropical station Kolkata has been described in the present study. Three years satellite data from 2005-2007 has been used for the present study. It has been found that the percentage of lower and middle level clouds is greater in the pre-monsoon season whereas the percentage of higher-level clouds are predominant in the monsoon months over this region. Correspondingly the cloud effective radius value also increases from pre-monsoon months to the monsoon months. The impact of aerosols and liquid water content plays a vital role in such changes.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric precipitation; clouds; AD 2005 to 2007; Indian monsoon period; Kolkata region; aerosols; cloud microphysical characteristics; liquid water content; lower level clouds; middle level clouds; monsoon season; precipitation microphysical characteristics; premonsoon season; Aerosols; Clouds; Earth; Liquids; MODIS; Meteorology; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kolkata

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1098-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEMC.2011.6256918

Filename

6256918