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03 Jun 2015
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Observation- and numerical-analysis-based dynamics of the Uttarkashi cloudburst
C. Chaudhuri
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
S. Tripathi
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
R. Srivastava
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
A. Misra
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
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Short summary
In this paper a Himalayan cloudburst event is investigated. The conditions of formation, evolution, and triggering mechanisms of this cloudburst are studied, looking at varieties of observed data sets and simulation with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. This cloudburst event is attributed to two mesoscale convective systems originating from Madhya Pradesh and Tibet which interacted over Uttarkashi, and under orographic uplifting in the presence of favorable moisture conditions.
In this paper a Himalayan cloudburst event is investigated. The conditions of formation,...
