Climatology of precipitation and clouds over TAILAND
TAILAND


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 404793 snapshots of precipitation features with size > 80 km^2 have been collected over TAILAND , where 13759 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 404793 341 1245 5.5 1.8 0.30
    DJF 34993 187 621 4.5 1.1 0.09
    MAM 85854 347 1404 6.2 2.1 0.73
    JJA 165020 360 1223 5.6 1.8 0.22
    SON 118926 354 1344 5.2 1.8 0.16

  • Extreme rainy events
  • In all 404793 precipitation features, top 1% ( volumetric rain > 22749 mm/hr*km^2) rainy features contribute 56 % of total rainfall. Top 100 rainiest events observed by TRMM during 1998-2013 over TAILAND 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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