Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Impact of Boundary-Layer Parameterisation Schemes on the Prediction of the Asian Summer Monsoon

  • Published:
Boundary-Layer Meteorology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The impact of two boundary-layer parameterisation schemes on the prediction of Indian monsoon systems by a global spectral model has been investigated. The turbulent kinetic energy closure scheme shows a positive impact on the prediction of some important synoptic features, including the genesis of monsoon lows, the tracking of monsoon depressions, and precipitation.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Anthes, R A.: 1977, ‘A Cumulus Parameterisation Scheme Utilising a One Dimensional Cloud Model’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 105, 270-286.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arakawa, A.: 1972, ‘Design of the UCLA General Circulation Model’, Tech. Rep. No. 7, Department of Meteorology, University of California, Los Angeles, 116 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Asnani, G. C.: 1993, Tropical Meteorology, Vols. I and II, G. C. Asnani, Pune, India, 603 pp. and 598 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Basu, S. and Raghavan, N.: 1986, ‘Prediction of Inversion Strengths and Heights from a 1D Nocturnal Boundary Layer Model’, Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 35, 193-204.

    Google Scholar 

  • Beljaars, A. C. M., Walmsley, J. L., and Taylor, P. A.: 1987: ‘A Mixed Spectral Finite Difference Model for Neutrally Stratified Boundary Layer Flow over Roughness Changes and Topography’, Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 38, 273-303.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blackadar, A. K.: 1962, ‘The Vertical Distribution of Wind and Turbulence in a Neutral Atmosphere’, J. Geophys. Res. 67, 3095-3102.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deardorff, J. W.: 1966, ‘The Contragradient Heat Flux in the Lower Atmosphere and in the Laboratory’, J. Atmos. Sci. 23, 503-506.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deardorff, J. W.: 1972, ‘Parameterization of the Planetary Boundary Layer for Use in General Circulation Models’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 100, 93-106.

    Google Scholar 

  • Detering, H. W. and Etling, D.: 1985, ‘Application of the E-∈ Turbulence Closure Model to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer’. Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 33, 113-133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fels, S. B. and Schwarzkopf, M. D.: 1981, ‘An Efficient Accurate Algorithm for Calculating CO2 15 µm band cooling rates’, J. Geophys. Res. 86, 1205-1232.

    Google Scholar 

  • Holt, T. and Raman, S.: 1988, ‘A Review and Comparative Evaluation of Multi-Level Boundary Layer Parameterisations for First Order and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Closure Schemes’, Reviews of Geophys. 26, 761-780.

    Google Scholar 

  • Holtslag, A. A. M. and Boville, B. A.: 1993: ‘Local Versus Nonlocal Boundary Layer Diffusion in a Global Climate Model’, J. Climate 6, 1825-1842.

    Google Scholar 

  • Holtslag, A. A. M. and Moeng, C.-H.: 1991, ‘Eddy Diffusivity and Countergradient Transport in the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer’, J. Atmos. Sci. 48, 1690-1698.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanamitsu, M.: 1989, ‘Description of the NMC Global Data Assimilation and Forecast System’. Weather and Forecasting 4, 335-342.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kessler, E.: 1969, ‘On the Distribution and Continuity of Water Substance in Atmospheric Circulations’, Met. Monographs 10(32), Amer. Met. Soc., Boston, 84 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kitada, T.: 1987, ‘Turbulence Transport of a Sea Breeze Front and its Implication in Air Pollution Transport - Application of k-∈ Turbulence Model’, Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 41, 217-239.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lacis, A. A. and Hansen, J. E.: 1974, ‘A Parameterisation for the Absorption of Solar Radiation in the Earth's Atmosphere’, J. Atmos. Sci. 31, 118-133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leith, C. E.: 1971, ‘Atmospheric Predictability and Two Dimensional Turbulence’, J. Atmos. Sci. 28, 145-161.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lindzen, R. S.: 1981, ‘Turbulence and Stress due to Gravity Wave and Tidal Breakdown’, J. Geophys.Res. 86, 9707-9714.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lumley, J. L.: 1980, ‘Second Order Modelling of Turbulent Flows, in Prediction Methods for Turbulent Flows’, in W. Kollmann (ed.), Hemisphere, London, pp. 1-31.

  • Mahrt, L.: 1976, ‘Mixed Layer Moisture Structure’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 104, 1403-1407.

    Google Scholar 

  • Manabe, S., Smagorinsky, J., and Strickler, R. F.: 1965, ‘Simulated Climatology of a General Circulation Model with a Hydrologic Cycle’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 93, 769-798.

    Google Scholar 

  • Marchuk, G. I., Kochergin, V. P., Klinok, V. I., and Sukhorukor, V A.: 1977, ‘On the Dynamics of the Ocean Mixed Layer’, J. Phys. Oceanog. 7, 865-875.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mitra, A. K., Bohra, A. K., and Rajan, D.: 1997, ‘Daily Rainfall Analysis for Indian Summer Monsoon Region’, Int. J. Climatol. 17,1083-1092.

    Google Scholar 

  • Orszag, S. A.: 1970, ‘Transform Method for Calculation of Vector-Coupled Sums: Application to the Spectral Form of the Vorticity Equation’, J. Atmos. Sci. 27, 890-895.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pan, H.-L.: 1990, ‘A Simple Parameterisation Scheme of Evapotranspiration over Land for NMC Medium Range Forecast Model’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 118, 2500-2512.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pant, M. C.: 1993: Some Characteristic Features of Low Level Southwest Monsoon Flow over the Arabian Sea, Ph.D Thesis, Berhampur University, Orissa, India, 239 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parrish, D. F. and Derber, J. C.: 1992, ‘The NMC's Spectral Statistical Interpolation Analysis System’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 120, 1747-1763.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pierrehumbert, R. T.: 1986, ‘An Essay on the Parameterisation of Orographic Gravity Wave Drag’, Seminar/Workshop 1986, Observation, Theory and Modelling of Orographic Effects, ECMWF, Reading, U.K., pp. 251-282.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raghavan, N. and Basu, S.: 1988, ‘Prediction of Wind Speed Direction and Diffusivity under Neutral Conditions for Tall Stacks’, J. Appl. Meteorol. 24A, 801-810.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rao, Y. P.: 1976, ‘Southwest Monsoon’, Meteorological Monograph Synoptic Meteorology, No. 1/1976, India Meteorological Department, Pune, India, 367 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robert, A., Henderson, J., and Turnbull, C.: 1972, ‘An Implicit Time Integration Scheme for Baroclinic Models of the Atmosphere’, Mon. Wea. Rev. 100, 329-335.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robert, A.: 1981, ‘A Stable Numerical Integration Scheme for Primitive Meteorological Equation’, Atmos. Oceanog. 19, 35-46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Slingo, J. M.: 1987, ‘The Development and Verification of a Cloud Prediction Scheme for the ECMWF model’, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. 115, 899-926.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stull, R. B.: 1988, An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 666 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stull, R. B.: 1991, ‘Static Stability: An Update’, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 72, 1521-1529.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tiedtke, M.: 1983, ‘The Sensitivity of the Time Mean Large Scale Flow to Cumulus Convection in the ECMWF Model’, in Workshop on Convection in Large Scale Numerical Models, ECMWF, pp. 297-316.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Mausam Bhavan Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi, 110003, India

    Swati Basu, Z. N. Begum & E. N> Rajagopal

Authors
  1. Swati Basu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Z. N. Begum
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. E. N> Rajagopal
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Basu, S., Begum, Z.N. & Rajagopal, E.N. Impact of Boundary-Layer Parameterisation Schemes on the Prediction of the Asian Summer Monsoon. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 86, 469–485 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000708209147

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000708209147

Search

Navigation