Lightning and convective rain study in different parts of India

Siingh, Devendraa; Buchunde, P.; Singh, R. P.; Nath, Asha; Kumar, Sarvan; Ghodpage, R. N.

doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.09.018

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“…Lucknow is situated in Gangetic Plain. Aerosol concentration is higher over Gangetic plain than the rest of the country [20] [21]. Lal et al [22] also showed an increasing trend in aerosol index over Gangetic plain during the period 1979-2010.…”

Section: Major Citiesmentioning

confidence: 89%

Long Term Temperature Trends at Major, Medium, Small Cities and Hill Stations in India during the Period 1901-2013

Kothawale¹,

Deshpande²,

Kolli³

2016

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Industrialization and urbanization are the most dominant causal factors for long-term changes in surface air temperatures. To examine this fact, the long term changes in the surface-air temperatures have been evaluated by the linear trend for the different periods, i.e. and recent period 1971-2013 as rapid industrialization was observed during the recent four decades. In the present study, seasonal and annual mean, maximum and minimum temperature data of 36 stations for the period 1901-2013 have been used. These stations are classified into 4 groups, namely major, medium, small cities and hill stations. During the period 1901-1970, less than 50% stations from each group showed a significant increasing trend in annual mean temperature, whereas in the recent period 1971-2013, more than 80% stations from all the groups except small city group showed a significant increasing trend. The minimum temperature increased faster than that of the maximum temperature over major and medium cities, while maximum temperature increased faster than the minimum temperature over the small cities and hill stations. The annual mean temperature of all the coastal stations showed a significant increasing trend and positive correlation with Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV). The effect of PWV is more pronounced on minimum temperature than that of the maximum.

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Section: Major Citiesmentioning

confidence: 89%

Long Term Temperature Trends at Major, Medium, Small Cities and Hill Stations in India during the Period 1901-2013

Kothawale¹,

Deshpande²,

Kolli³

2016

AJCC

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“…Owing to the close association between lightning and convective activity in a region, the relationship between lightning activity and several factors related to convections have been investigated by many investigators in different regions (Williams and Lhermitte, 1983;Williams and Renno, 1993;Zhou et al, 1999;Qie et al, 2003;Tinmaker et al, 2010;Tinmaker and Ali, 2012;Siingh et al, , 2014. The main difference in convective activity over the peninsular and sea regions arises due to larger convection over land surface as compared to sea surface.…”

Section: Lightning Convective Rainfall and Meteorological Parametermentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Indirectly aerosols also affect cloud droplet size (Twomey et al, 1984), cloud life time and cloud extent (Ackerman et al, 2000), precipitation process (Albrecht, 1989) and electrical properties of clouds (Westcott, 1995;Stallins and Rose, 2008;Kar et al, 2009;Siingh et al, 2008Siingh et al, , 2011. CAPE and surface temperature are positively correlated with lightning flashes and convective rain Kamra, 2012a,b, 2013;Siingh et al, , 2014. The sea surface temperature (SST) is strongly related to atmospheric instability, significantly increases moisture advection and hence increases rain fall and lightning activity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Romatschke et al (2010) showed that deep convective system in South Asia move from the east coast of the Indian peninsula in the pre-monsoon season to western foothills of the Himalayan range in monsoon season. Heavy precipitation over India, China and Japan are reported which are influenced directly or indirectly by the Himalaya/Tibetan Plateau (Yihui and Chen, 2005;Fu et al, 2008;Qian et al, 2009;Takahashi et al, 2010;Qi and Wang, 2012;Siingh et al, , 2014Halder et al, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…(Massie et al, 2004;Cheng et al, 2007;Tinmaker et al, 2010;Yuan et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2011;Siingh et al, , 2014Kulkarni and Siingh, 2014). Aerosols present in the atmosphere scatter, reflect and absorb incident solar radiation and thus affect the solar radiation budget, surface temperature and outgoing long wave radiation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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