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Abstract
Issue Title: Monsoons - Understanding and Prediction
Monthly and daily variations in rainfall over Cherapunjee and Mawsynram on the Meghalaya plateau of northeastern India are analysed. Cherapunjee and Mawsynram are well known as two of the places with the heaviest rainfall in the world. The daily rainfall variation is attributed to the influence of synoptic scale disturbances, with a periodicity of 10-20 days, and the orographic interaction. The annual and monthly highest rainfalls over Cherapunjee during the 31 years from 1973 to 2003 were much larger than mean values.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Title
Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau in northeastern India--one of the rainiest places in the world
Author
Murata, Fumie; Hayashi, Taiichi; Matsumoto, Jun; Asada, Haruhisa
Pages
391-399
Publication year
2007
Publication date
Aug 2007
ISSN
0921030X
e-ISSN
15730840
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
744576493
Copyright
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007