Climatology of precipitation and clouds over INDONESIA_1
INDONESIA 1


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 1279813 snapshots of precipitation features with size > 80 km^2 have been collected over INDONESIA_1 , where 25583 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 1279813 366 1383 5.1 1.7 0.14
    DJF 334801 375 1395 4.8 1.6 0.09
    MAM 329399 328 1232 5.3 1.9 0.18
    JJA 281177 347 1335 5.1 1.7 0.14
    SON 334436 409 1557 5.1 1.7 0.13

  • Extreme rainy events
  • In all 1279813 precipitation features, top 1% ( volumetric rain > 24247 mm/hr*km^2) rainy features contribute 61 % of total rainfall. Top 100 rainiest events observed by TRMM during 1998-2013 over INDONESIA_1 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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