Climatology of precipitation and clouds over INDONESIA_3
INDONESIA 3


General info
Precipitation
System properties
Cloud
Seasonal variation
Diurnal variation
Vertical Structure
Extreme events
Time series
  • Mean properties of precipitation system

  • During 1998-2013, total 1222807 snapshots of precipitation features with size > 80 km^2 have been collected over INDONESIA_3 , where 13680 of them have lightning flashes inside. Some mean properties of these features are listed below:
    samples (#) mean size (km^2) mean volumetric rain (mm/hr*km^2) mean echo top (km) mean 30 dBZ ehco top (km)mean flash count (#)
    All 1222807 347 1247 5.0 1.6 0.05
    DJF 323472 382 1367 5.2 1.7 0.05
    MAM 351337 360 1291 5.1 1.6 0.03
    JJA 282735 312 1115 4.6 1.4 0.02
    SON 265263 324 1184 5.2 1.8 0.09

  • Extreme rainy events
  • In all 1222807 precipitation features, top 1% ( volumetric rain > 21969 mm/hr*km^2) rainy features contribute 60 % of total rainfall. Top 100 rainiest events observed by TRMM during 1998-2013 over INDONESIA_3 are listed here . Following figure shows the location of the precipitation feautres categorized by the volumetric rainfall.


  • Extreme intense events
  • Some of the precipitation sytems are much intense with large hails and many lightning than others (see the lists of top lightning storms. Following figure shows the location of the precipitation feautres categorized by the lightning rate and 30 dBZ echo top.


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