%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2019/11.08.09.45
%2 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2019/11.08.09.45.18
%@doi 10.1038/s41598-019-52075-y
%@issn 2045-2322
%T A new perspective in understanding rainfall from satellites over a complex topographic region of India
%D 2019
%8 Dec.
%9 journal article
%A Thakur, Manoj Kumar,
%A Kumar, T. V. Lakshmi,
%A Rao, K. Koteswara,
%A Barbosa, Humberto,
%A Rao, Vadlamudi Brahmananda,
%@affiliation SRM Institute of Science and Technology
%@affiliation SRM Institute of Science and Technology
%@affiliation Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
%@affiliation Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%B Scientific Reports
%V 9
%N 1
%P e15610
%X Present study focuses on rainfall over Western Ghats (WG), a complex topographic region (elevation>500m) of India to evaluate and to better understand the satellite behavior in contrast with a fat region (FR) (elevation<500m) of central India from 1998 to 2016 using the combinatory data sets of TMPA and IMERG (satellite rainfall estimation). The categorical Intra Seasonal Oscillations (ISO) of Indian summer monsoon (ISM) namely, Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Quasi Bi-Weekly Oscillation (QBWO) are tested in satellite and India Meteorological Department (IMD) gridded rainfall data sets to fnd out the satellite performance. As the accurate estimation of rainfall from satellites over higher elevation zones is challenging, here we propose a new perspective to select the rainfall products of satellite for better comparison with ground measurements. Considering the satellites best capability in detecting the cold clouds resulting from deep convection and its coupling with higher-level circulation, we show that the rainfall from satellites yield fruitful comparison with ground measurements when moist static stability, tropical easterly jet is above the climatological values.
%@language en
%3 thakur_new.pdf