Exceptional heavy rainfall over Ajoy, Mayurakshi and Kansabati catchments and QPF verification during flood season of September 2009

Authors

  • SOUMENDU SENGUPTA India Meteorological Department, Kolkata, India
  • B.K. MANDAL India Meteorological Department, Kolkata, India
  • D. PRADHAN India Meteorological Department, Kolkata, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v63i3.1233

Keywords:

Synoptic, Catchments, Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF), Areal Average Precipitation (AAP), UTC

Abstract

Ajoy, Mayurakshi, Kansabati are three important river catchments of West Bengal and Jharkhand state, received very heavy rainfall during two consecutive days of flood season in the month of September 2009. The contribution of heavy rainfall & combined discharges from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) reservoirs during the period of heavy rainspells over these catchments enhanced flood situation in some districts of West Bengal. The synoptic features based on weather charts, cloud imageries of satellite and radar pictures have been taken to analyse. The realized areal average precipitation (AAP) as per rainfall recorded at 0300 UTC of next day have also been taken to verify the quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) of 6&7 September 2009.

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Published

01-07-2012

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S. . SENGUPTA, B. . MANDAL, and D. PRADHAN, “Exceptional heavy rainfall over Ajoy, Mayurakshi and Kansabati catchments and QPF verification during flood season of September 2009”, MAUSAM, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 479–488, Jul. 2012.

Issue

Vol. 63 No. 3 (2012): MAUSAM

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Shorter Contribution

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