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Impact of Cartosat-1 Orography in 330 M Unified Model Forecast


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1 National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India
 

The newly introduced high-resolution (330 m) regional model, Delhi Model (DM), at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting targets winter time fog/visibility forecast over Delhi, India. The pre-sent study focuses on the benefits of enhanced oro-graphic features in DM, through a new data set deve-loped using the Indian Space Research Organisation Cartosat-1 orography (Cartosat-run), against those from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model employed previously (SRTM-run). The early morning visibilities from the Cartosat-runs were lower compared to the SRTM-runs, which could be linked to an enhanced downdraft (negative vertical velocity) in the former, helping form a shallow and stratified boundary layer. The evolution and vari-ability of ‘ventilation index’ in the model domain is regulated by the local wind circulation changes within the shallow boundary layer which in turn is modulat-ed by the orography representation. The DM forecast-ed ventilation index has been projected to be a potential indicator of the atmosphere dispersion of airborne pollutants over Delhi.

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Cartosat, Fog, Orography, Visibility.
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Authors

A. Jayakumar
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India
Jisesh Sethunadh
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India
Timmy Francis
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India
Saji Mohandas
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India
E. N. Rajagopal
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, A-50, Sector 62, Noida 201 309, India

Abstract


The newly introduced high-resolution (330 m) regional model, Delhi Model (DM), at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting targets winter time fog/visibility forecast over Delhi, India. The pre-sent study focuses on the benefits of enhanced oro-graphic features in DM, through a new data set deve-loped using the Indian Space Research Organisation Cartosat-1 orography (Cartosat-run), against those from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model employed previously (SRTM-run). The early morning visibilities from the Cartosat-runs were lower compared to the SRTM-runs, which could be linked to an enhanced downdraft (negative vertical velocity) in the former, helping form a shallow and stratified boundary layer. The evolution and vari-ability of ‘ventilation index’ in the model domain is regulated by the local wind circulation changes within the shallow boundary layer which in turn is modulat-ed by the orography representation. The DM forecast-ed ventilation index has been projected to be a potential indicator of the atmosphere dispersion of airborne pollutants over Delhi.

Keywords


Cartosat, Fog, Orography, Visibility.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi5%2F816-822