DOI: 10.1007/s11069-019-03829-4
论文题名: Appraisal of hydro-meteorological factors during extreme precipitation event: case study of Kedarnath cloudburst, Uttarakhand, India
作者: Pratap S. ; Srivastava P.K. ; Routray A. ; Islam T. ; Mall R.K.
刊名: Natural Hazards
ISSN: 0921030X
出版年: 2020
卷: 100, 期: 2 起始页码: 635
结束页码: 654
语种: 英语
中文关键词: Cloudburst
; Digital elevation model (DEM)
; Principal component analysis
; Seriation analysis
; Weather Research and Forecasting
英文关键词: cloud cover
; decision support system
; digital elevation model
; extreme event
; flash flood
; hydrometeorology
; MODIS
; precipitation (climatology)
; principal component analysis
; TRMM
; weather forecasting
; wind velocity
; India
; Kedarnath
; Uttarakhand
英文摘要: Flash flood is an uncertain and most catastrophic disaster worldwide that causes socio-economic problems, devastation and loss of infrastructure. One of the major triggering factors of flash floods is the extreme events like cloudburst that causes flooding of area within a short span of time. Therefore, this study aims to understand the variations in hydro-meteorological variables during the devastating Kedarnath cloudburst in the Uttarakhand, India. The hydro-meteorological variables were collected from the global satellites such as Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, modelled datasets from Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer and National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). For the validation of satellite meteorological data, the NCEP Global analysis data were downscaled using Weather Research and Forecasting model over the study area to achieve the meteorological variables’ information. The meteorological factors such as atmospheric pressure, atmospheric temperature, rainfall, cloud water content, cloud fraction, cloud particle radius, cloud mixing ratio, total cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction and relative humidity were studied during the cloudburst, before as well as after the event. The outcomes of this study indicate that the variability in hydro-meteorological variables over the Kedarnath had played a significant role in triggering the cloudburst in the area. The results showed that during the cloudburst, the relative humidity was at the maximum level, the temperature was very low, the wind speed was slow and the total cloud cover was found at the maximum level. It is expected that because of this situation a high amount of clouds may get condensed at a very rapid rate and resulted in a cloudburst over the Kedarnath region. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168683
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作者单位: DST-Mahamana Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India; National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201309, India; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Recommended Citation:
Pratap S.,Srivastava P.K.,Routray A.,et al. Appraisal of hydro-meteorological factors during extreme precipitation event: case study of Kedarnath cloudburst, Uttarakhand, India[J]. Natural Hazards,2020-01-01,100(2)