Prediction of high impact rainfall events of summer monsoon over Bangladesh using high resolution MM5 model

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An attempt has been made to predict the high impact rainfall events of summer monsoon over Bangladesh using the Fifth-Generation PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5) conducting two historical rainfall events on 11 June 2007 and 14 September 2004. The model was run on two way triple-nested domains at 45, 15, 5 km horizontal resolutions using Anthes-Kuo cumulus parameterization schemes (CPS) with MRF planetary boundary layer (PBL). Bangladesh is the main focus area in this study. Thus Bangladesh is taken as inner most (D3) domain with 5 km horizontal resolution to study the variability of predicted rainfall. The model predicted rainfall was compared with TRMM 3B42V6 and BMD observed rainfall.

  • Publisher: Sri Lankan Journal of Physics
  • Author(s): M. N. Ahasan, M. A. Mannan Chowdhury and D. A. Quadir
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