Abstract

The rainfall figures reported by the 15 rain recording stations within a radius of 20 miles around Madras city during the monsoon months June–September for the year 1959–1963 have been utilised. The locations of these stations are shown in Fig. 1. The mean daily rainfall figures of the fifteen stations for each day during the above period were computed and these figures were taken to represent the mean rainfall over the area for that day. Daily values of the upper air tempera-tures and winds at the standard isobaric levels at 00Z for each day of the above period were also collected. The zonal component of the wind at each level was then computed. Analysis and Discussion of data–The upper air parameters, viz., the zonal components of upper winds and temperatures were tabulated against the 24 hours average rainfall ending 0830 IST of the following day for each standard isobaric level. The distributions of …

Date

January 1, 1967

Authors

TR SRINIVASAN, S Narayanan

Journal

MAUSAM

Volume

18

Issue

1

Pages

130-133