Heights of Cb clouds over India during the southwest monsoon season

Authors

  • D. V. DESHPANDE Meteorological Branch, IAF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v15i1.5512

Abstract

Thunderclouds constitute one of the worst hazards of flying. Over India, Cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds develop to very great heights during the southwest monsoon season, June to September. These are often embedded in other cloud layers and pose a serious problem to aviators. All available data regarding Cb clouds obtained by the meteorological reconnaissance flights and scheduled civil flights by jet aircraft across India during the last six monsoon seasons have been analysed. The mean heights of tops of Cb clouds and their diurnal and regional variations have been studied. Heights of bases of Cb clouds and weather phenomena in their vicinity are briefly discussed. Three typical Synoptic situations illustrative of thunder activity in the monsoon season aloe also described.

Downloads

Published

01-01-1964

How to Cite

[1]
D. V. DESHPANDE, “Heights of Cb clouds over India during the southwest monsoon season”, MAUSAM, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 47–54, Jan. 1964.

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (1964): MAUSAM

Section

Shorter Contribution

License

Copyright (c) 1964 MAUSAM

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All articles published by MAUSAM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This permits anyone.

Anyone is free:

  • To Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • To Remix - to adapt the work.

Under the following conditions:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even
    commercially.