The Budget of Turbulent Kinetic Energy during Premonsoon Season over Kharagpur as Revealed by STORM Experimental Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Budget of Turbulent Kinetic Energy during Premonsoon Season over Kharagpur as Revealed by STORM Experimental Data

Published:2013-09-16 Issue: Volume:2013 Page:1-11
ISSN:2090-7524
Container-title:ISRN Meteorology
language:en
Short-container-title:ISRN Meteorology

Author:

Tyagi Bhishma¹^ORCID,Satyanarayana A. N. V.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

2. Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India

Abstract

Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget variations during thunderstorm days (TD) and nonthunderstorm days (NTD) of premonsoon seasons of 2007, 2009, and 2010 have been investigated at a tropical station Kharagpur (22°30′N, 87°20′E) using the surface layer turbulence data obtained during severe thunderstorms-observations and regional modeling (STORM) experiment. Significant variations in the contributions of the TKE budget parameters with respect to stability are observed on these contrasting days of weather activity. In highly unstable conditions, smaller dissipation rates are seen on TD compared to NTD, while approaching near neutral conditions, higher dissipation rates are found in TD. New relationships between TKE dissipation rates with respect to atmospheric stability are proposed at Kharagpur for TD and NTD.

Funder

Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Engineering

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/archive/2013/972942.pdf

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