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Bulk, first-order and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) closure schemes are used to parameterise the boundary-layer physics in a high resolution, limited area model. The model was used to simulate the summer monsoon circulations over India. The domain selected included the monsoon trough over northern India, a region of mesoscale convection. A monsoon depression was present at the time of the simulation. The results indicate that the TKE closure scheme combined with the Monin–Obukhov surface-layer similarity relation provided the best 48-hour simulation of the circulation and the rainfall associated with the monsoon depression.
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Potty, K.V.J., Mohanty, U.C. & Raman, S. Effect of three different boundary-layer parameterisations in a regional atmospheric model on the simulation of summer monsoon circulation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 84, 363–381 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000402013655
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