Our latest publication on "modelling Pool of inhibited cloudiness"


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Our collaborative research article

Sensitivity of climate models in relation to the “pool of inhibited cloudiness” over South of the Bay of Bengal

 is published in the International Journal of Climatology recently.
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It is on evaluation of CMIP5 models and suites of CFSv2 in capturing a region known as "Pool of inhibited cloudiness" [click to view the base paper] over the southwest Bay of Bengal region.

This region was actually identified based on satellite observation by Nair et al. (2011)  
However, the fidelity of climate models were not evaluated to capture this region of suppressed convection (surrounded by region of deep convection).
Climate models (cmip5 and CFSv2 default) shows difficulties in simulating the region.
However, improved cloud physics seem to have played an important role in capturing the complex process


Present Paper:
Roy, K., Mukhopadhyay, P., Murali Krishna, R.P., Ganai, M., Mahakur, M., Narayan Rao, T., Nair, A.K.M., Ramakrishna, S.S.V.S., 2019. Sensitivity of climate models in relation to the “pool of inhibited cloudiness” over South of the Bay of Bengal. Int. J. Climatol. joc.6423. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6423

Related Publications from the author:
Nair, A.K.M., Rao, T.N., Rajeev, K., 2019. Role of cloud feedback in regulating the “pool of inhibited cloudiness” over the Bay of Bengal. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. 131, 183–194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-017-0560-7

Nair, A.K.M., 2014. Studies on the horizontal and vertical distribution of clouds and their impact on energetics of the Atmosphere over the Indian Region. (Thesis) Cochin University of Science and Technology, shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/18956


Nair, A.K.M., Rajeev, K., Sijikumar, S., Meenu, S., 2011. Characteristics of a persistent “pool of inhibited cloudiness” and its genesis over the Bay of Bengal associated with the Asian summer monsoon. Ann. Geophys. 29, 1247–1252. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-29-1247-2011

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