| DOI: | 10.1007/s00382-015-2947-9
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84951952122
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| 论文题名: | Formation of the southern Bay of Bengal cold pool |
| 作者: | Das U.; Vinayachandran P.N.; Behara A.
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| 刊名: | Climate Dynamics
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| ISSN: | 9307575
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| 出版年: | 2016
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| 卷: | 47, 期:2017-05-06 | | 起始页码: | 2009
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| 结束页码: | 2023
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Cold pool
; Monsoon onset
; Pre-monsoon
; SST
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| 英文摘要: | A pool of relatively cooler water, called here as the southern Bay of Bengal cold pool, exists around Sri Lanka and southern tip of India during the summer monsoon. This cold pool is enveloped by the larger Indian Ocean warm pool and is believed to affect the intraseasonal variations of summer monsoon rainfall. In this study, we have investigated the mechanisms responsible for the formation of the cold pool using a combination of both satellite data sets and a general circulation model of the Indian Ocean. Sea surface temperature (SST) within the cold pool, after the steady increase during the February–April period, decreases first during a pre-monsoon spell in April and then with the monsoon onset during May. The onset cooling is stronger (~1.8 ∘C) than the pre-monsoon cooling (~0.8 ∘C) and culminates in the formation of the cold pool. Analysis of the model temperature equation shows that SST decrease during both events is primarily due to a decrease in incoming solar radiation and an increase in latent heat loss. These changes in the net heat flux are brought about by the arrival of cloud bands above the cold pool during both periods. During the pre-monsoon period, a cloud band originates in the western equatorial Indian Ocean and subsequently arrives above the cold pool. Similarly, during the monsoon onset, a band of clouds originating in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean comes over the cold pool region. A lead-lag correlation calculation between daily SST and rainfall anomalies suggest that cooling in SST occurs in response to rainfall events with a lag of 5 days. These sequence of events occur every year with certain amount of interannual variability. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/53552
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| Appears in Collections: | 过去全球变化的重建
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作者单位: | Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Das U.,Vinayachandran P.N.,Behara A.. Formation of the southern Bay of Bengal cold pool[J]. Climate Dynamics,2016-01-01,47(2017-05-06)
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