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Type of talk
Seminar
Speaker
Krishna Kumar Shukla
Affiliation
ARIES
Venue
Auditorium
Abstract

To study the dynamical aspects of aerosols, we have utilized continuous and simultaneous datasets performed during an Indo-US collaborative project the Ganges valley aerosols experiment (GVAX) during June 2011-March 2012 over a high altitude site Manora Peak, Nainital in the central Himalayan region due to its unique topography. A detailed discussion about the dynamics and estimation of diurnal/seasonal variation of ABL height by using different methods have been done in this thesis and found that it varies between ~ 0.6-1 km, above ground level (AGL) in all the seasons. The estimation of ABL cloud base height (CBH) by using Doppler Lidar and ceilometer have been done and found good correlation R2=0.76 between both the CBH. We have studied the diurnal/seasonal variation of vertical velocity (VV) (it shows the upslope and downslope wind during daytime and nighttime respectively over the site) and VV variance (it shows the intensity of turbulence over the site). We have also observed that the aerosol optical depth is modulated with the periodicity of ~ 60-80 min (gravity wave) and with period of ~ 25-45 (Rossby wave) days dominant over the observational site. We have observed an additional atmospheric warming due to waves (Gravity and Rossby) of ~ 40 and 16 % respectively.

Email Speaker
krishna@aries.res.in
About Speaker

Mr. Krishna Kumar Shukla is Research Scholar in Atmospheric Science group and pursuing his PhD with Dr. D V Phani Kumar. This is a PhD pre-submission talk.

Email Host
manish@aries.res.in
Host Name
Manish Naja
Host Phone (ext/mob)
773