Moisture transport over the Indian ocean and South China sea associated with rainfall over Thailand during 2010 and 2011
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Author list: Chansaengkrachang K., Luadsong A., Aschariyaphotha N.
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Advances and Applications in Fluid Mechanics (0973-4686)
Volume number: 17
Issue number: 2
Start page: 195
End page: 208
Number of pages: 14
ISSN: 0973-4686
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
This research aims to study moisture transport over the Indian Ocean and South China Sea during the rainy season of Thailand in the years 2010 and 2011. The data is taken from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP). The total vertically integrated moisture flux divergence, horizontal fluxes, and meridional fluxes are computed in this study. The results are vertically integrated moisture fluxes which perform from the surface to 300hPa. The main moisture transport occurs from west to east of the study area with strong wind components toward India and Thailand from the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, a deeper, vertically integrated moisture convergence in the year 2011 progressively appeared over Southeast Asia compared to the year 2010. A deeper convergence occurred in strong moisture over Thailand, which caused more rainfall in Thailand during the rainy season of the year 2011. ฉ 2015 Pushpa Publishing House, Allahabad, India.
Keywords
Indian Ocean, Vertically integrated moisture divergence (convergence), Vertically integrated moisture transport
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