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DMI's contribution to PROMISE-project
1. WP1100: Seasonal predictability
of monsoon climate
Scheduled for year 3.
2. WP2000: Assessment of
future monsoon climates in
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change
Scheduled for year 1 (half
a year) and year 2.
DMI has started to investigate
the climatic changes in
the region affected by
the Asian/Indian summer monsoon.
The focus has primarily
been on the aspects of the
hydrological cycle, i.e.,
precipitation, evaporation,
source-term of atmospheric
moisture (E-P), atmospheric
moisture transports etc.
Moreover, we have obtained data
estimating the runoff of
the Indus and the Ganges/Brahma-
putra, which has been estimated
within another EC-project
(ERACC). Another focus
has been on the occurrence of
tropical cyclones over
the northern Indian Ocean during
the monsoon season.
In order to continue the
work on the dynamical aspects
of the Asian/Indian summer
monsoon and the impact of the
SSTs in the Indian and
Pacific Ocean as well as of the
Eurasian snow cover on
the phenomenology of the summer
monsoon, we have started
to study the respective literature,
a.o., the published results
from the SHIVA-project.
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