Open AccessInference of the moisture field over Arabian Sea during the monsoon of 1984 using I NSAT-IB sea surface temperature data
Author(s) -
C. L. Agnihotri
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
mausam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0252-9416
DOI - 10.54302/mausam.v37i4.2590
Subject(s) - monsoon , climatology , peninsula , sea surface temperature , moisture , oceanography , geology , air temperature , environmental science , air mass (solar energy) , atmospheric sciences , geography , meteorology , boundary layer , archaeology , physics , thermodynamics
In this study moisture incursion in the Arabian Sea has been monitored during the onset, active and withdrawal phase of the summer monsoon (May-Sept 1984) using sea surface temperature anomalies This study shows that tongue of moist air reached south. Peninsula about 20 days ahead of the normal onset of monsoon and continued to be ahead by 12-14 day even after Its setting. During the withdrawal phase it has been observed that moist air starts with drawing from north Arabian Sea by third week of September replaced by dry continental air mass which continued to move southward pushing further south the moist air and the monsoon.