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2 Atmospheric and Oceanic Mesoscale Processes Edited by Maithili Sharan Sethu Raman Birkhäuser Basel Boston Berlin

3 Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 164 (2007) No. 8-9 Editors: Maithili Sharan Sethu Raman Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences Professor, Department of Marine, Earth, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Atmospheric Sciences Hauz Khas, New Delhi North Carolina State University India Raleigh, North Carolina USA Library of Congress Control Number: Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek: Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at < ISBN Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel Boston Berlin This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. For any kind of use permission of the copyright owner must be obtained Birkhäuser Verlag AG Basel Boston Berlin P.O. Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland Part of Springer Science+Business Media Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp. TCF Printed in Germany ISBN e-isbn

4 Contents 1423 Atmospheric and Oceanic Mesoscale Processes: Preface M. Sharan, S. Raman A. Tropical Cyclone 1429 Addressing Hurricane Intensity through Angular Momentum and Scale Energetics Approaches T. N. Krishnamurti, L. Stefanova, L. Watson, S. Pattnaik 1443 On the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Indian Region Using a Synthetic Vortex Scheme in a Mesoscale Model S. Sandeep, A. Chandrasekar, S. K. Dash 1465 Numerical Simulation of Andhra Severe Cyclone (2003): Model Sensitivity to the Boundary Layer and Convection Parameterization C. V. Srinivas, R. Venkatesan, D. V. Bhaskar Rao, D. H. Prasad B. Mesoscale Variability and Modelling 1491 Impact of Doppler Radar Wind in Simulating the Intensity and Propagation of Rainbands Associated with Mesoscale Convective Complexes Using MM5-3DVAR System S. Abhilash, S. Das, S. R. Kalsi, M. Das Gupta, K. Mohankumar, J. P. George, S. K. Banerjee, S. B. Thampi, D. Pradhan 1511 Observation of Sea Breeze Front and its Induced Convection over Chennai in Southern Peninsular India Using Doppler Weather Radar R. Suresh 1527 Variability of Convective Activity over the North Indian Ocean and its Associations with Monsoon Rainfall over India D. R. Pattanaik 1547 Sensitivity of Mesoscale Surface Dynamics to Surface Soil and Vegetation Contrasts over the Carolina Sandhills R. Boyles, S. Raman, A. Sims 1577 The Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data and its Impact on Rainfall Prediction along the West Coast of India during Monsoon 2002 C.-Y. Huang, Y.-H. Kuo, S.-Y. Chen, A. S. K. A. V. Prasad Rao, C.-J. Wang 1593 An Experiment Using the High Resolution Eta and WRF Models to Forecast Heavy Precipitation over India Y. V. Rama Rao, H. R. Hatwar, A. Kamal Salah, Y. Sudhakar 1617 Sensitivity of Mesoscale Model Forecast during a Satellite Launch to Different Cumulus Parameterization Schemes in MM5 V. Rakesh, R. Singh, P. K. Pal, P. C. Joshi

5 C. Seasonal Monsoon 1641 Experimental Seasonal Forecast of Monsoon 2005 Using T170L42 AGCM on PARAM Padma J. Venkata Ratnam, D. R. Sikka, A. Kaginalkar, A. Kesarkar, N. Jyothi, S. K. Banerjee 1667 Sensitivity of Indian Monsoon to Entrainment and Detrainment in Mass Flux Schemes S. K. Deb, H. C. Upadhyaya, O. P. Sharma, J. Y. Grandpeix 1683 An Objective Approach for Prediction of Daily Summer Monsoon Rainfall over Orissa (India) due to Interaction of Mesoscale and Large-scale Synoptic Systems M. Mohapatra, U. C. Mohanty 1699 Interactive Aspects of the Indian and the African Summer Monsoon Systems P. Sanjeeva Rao, D. R. Sikka 1717 The Preferred Structure of the Interannual Indian Monsoon Variability D. M. Straus, V. Krishnamurthy 1733 Wintertime Seasonal Scale Simulation over Western Himalaya Using RegCM3 A. P. Dimri, A. Ganju 1747 A Seasonal Statistical Evaluation of COAMPS over the Arabian Gulf Region R. E. Eager, S. Raman, T. R. Holt, D. Westphal, J. Reid, J. Nachamkin, M. Liu, A. Al Mandoos 1765 Influence of Pacific on Southern Indian Ocean Rossby Waves B. H. Vaid, C. Gnanaseelan, P. S. Polito, P. S. Salvekar D. Land Surface Processes 1789 A Simple Reclassification Method for Correcting Uncertainty in Land Use/ Land Cover Data Sets Used with Land Surface Models J. G. Alfieri, D. Niyogi, M. A. LeMone, F. Chen, S. Fall 1811 Analysis of Weak Wind Stable Conditions from the Observations of the Land Surface Processes Experiment at Anand in India Aditi and Maithili Sharan 1839 Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics during Indian Summer Monsoon Using Observations from Monsoon trough Boundary Layer Experiment at Jodhpur, India T. V. B. P. S. Rama Krishna, M. Sharan 1861 Evolutionary Features of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL) over the Arabian Sea and the Onset of Monsoon over Kerala during ARMEX-2003 S. G. Nagar, A. R. Dhakate, P. Seetaramayya

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Tsunami Science Four Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Tsunami Science Four Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Part I: Modelling and Hazard Assessment Edited by Phil R. Cummins Laura S. L. Kong Kenji Satake Birkhäuser Basel Boston Berlin Reprint from