According to recent observations, the origin of indian monsoon is influenced by a number of other factors, besides the differential heating of land and sea and the seasonal shifts of pressure and wind belts. Subtropical jet stream plays a significant role in both hindering the monsoon winds as well as in quick onset of monsoons. The jets maximum wind speeds are at a height of 3 kilometres 1. Tibetan anticyclone and tropical easterly jet springerlink. From french jeter, used with a spout from which water or fuel comes. The tropical easterly jet is the meteorological term referring to an upper level easterly wind that starts in late june and continues until early september.
Tropical easterly jet stream occurs near the tropopause over. African easterly waves aews are an important part of the west african and tropical atlantic climate. Antonyms for tropical easterly jet stream include jet stream, air stream, geostrophic wind, gradient wind, highaltitude wind, highspeed wind stream, prevailing wind and upperatmosphere wind. This study shows that the african waves are directly related to the midtropospheric easterly jet that is found within the baroclinic zone to the south of the sahara. Medicanes form roughly once or twice per year, generally in the autumn and winter months when dips in the jet stream occur far enough south to spawn lowpressure systems over the water.
Stj subtropical jet stream subtropical jet stream is a narrow band of fast moving air flowing from west to east westerlies. Where african cyclones come from the weather channel. Structure and effect on easterly wave development introduction results results continued amana hosten department of earth, oceanic and atmospheric science, florida state university, tallahassee, fl the african easterly jet is a maximum in the easterly wind and is most. I shows the rawin and radiosonde stations in this area. The previous chapter discussed about the most desirable and soughtafter sailing conditions the trade winds. Limate i national council of educational research and.
Longterm trends and their features during active and break monsoon phases, j. Above the lowlevel westerlies, and distinct from the harmattan easterlies and the tropical easterly jet, is the african easterly jet maximum at 600 mb and n. In addition, two prominent modes of variability are found based on a spectral analysis that uses the hilbert huang transform. Indian monsoon is because of contrast between indian subcontinent and adjoining indian ocean. In summer, the subtropical westerly jet stream moves north of the himalayas with the apparent movement of the sun. Tropical cyclone tc is a general term for rotating organized storms that form over the warm tropical oceans. Differences from other monsoon systems are probably related to the tropical easterly jet stream. African easterly waves and cape verde hurricane formation. From these two pioneering papers koteswaram tej and raghavan k tej 1973 available behind a paywall, reproduced here origin of tropical easterly jet, there exists at the upper levels an anticyclone over the indian subcontinent. The indian monsoon is a giant weather system which influences not only the surface winds but also upper winds like jet stream. While smectite dominates almost completely until the eocene, kaolinite appears everywhere in small amounts around the start of the oligocene. Arabian sea tropical cyclones intensified by emissions of. The tej originates in the south asian monsoon system over the bay of bengal, extends westward to africa and decays over the.
The wind near the aej moves faster than the surrounding air, causing eddies. Longterm trends and their features during active and break monsoon phases m. Despite their importance, very little is known about the. The concept and mechanism of monsoon, cycle of seasons in. Many tropical waves are generated by the african easterly jet aej, an easttowest oriented wind much like the jet stream that flows across africa into the tropical atlantic ocean. Before the monsoon onset, the upper air jet stream is westerly over india but as the monsoon onsets, it changes its dire. Uy is symmetric about the axis of the jet yy0, hav ing a maximum on it and decreasing away from this axis, to.
Subtropical jet stream, a belt of strong upperlevel winds lying above regions of subtropical high pressure. The african easterly jet aej is one of the most complex and intriguing dynamical features in tropical meteorology. African easterly wave variability and its relationship to. Also, as a verb, to push forth, or fling violently. African easterly waves originate over eastern and central africa and propagate westward across the atlantic. The african easterly jet is a region of the lower troposphere over west africa where the seasonal mean wind speed is at a maximum and the wind is easterly.
Origin and transport of tropical cirrus clouds observed over paramaribo, suriname 5. The response of atlantic tropical cyclones to suppression. The southwest monsoon dominates the weather, and clouds and rain abound. Jet stream is a upper atmospheric circulation created by the thermal variation between surface and upper atmosphere and equator and poles. A more southwestnortheast oriented northatlantic storm track fig. Ealj is the main moisture source of ethiopia during jas season which is located about at 850 hpa with mean maximum wind speed. On the south side of the anticyclone the tropical jet stream is produced. This type of clay then occurs increasingly up to the. Essays on the ecology of the guineacongo rain forest. The jet s maximum wind speeds are at a height of 3 kilometres 1. It basically flows at a height of 7 to 10kms from the surface of earth from west to east in a meander path. They are known progenitors of tropical storms and hurricanes erikson 1963. The strongest development of the jet is at about 15 km above the earths.
The role of upper level diffluence in the tropical easterly jet in. African easterly waves are the primary weather systems that occur over tropical north africa and the extreme eastern tropical north atlantic during the summer. The progress of the southwest monsoon towards india is greatly aided by the onset of certain jet streams including the crucial somali jet that transits kenya, somalia and sahel and exits the african coast at 9 degrees north at low. Observed change in sahel rainfall, circulations, african. This module describes characteristics of african easterly waves including horizontal and vertical structure, evolution, speed, frequency, methods of tracking, and their downstream transformation over the atlantic, caribbean, and east pacific.
Sub tropical jet stream plays a significant role in both hindering the monsoon winds as well as in quick onset of monsoons. This warm core high developed in mid troposphere at 500 mblevel is the result of a process called dynamic anticyclogensis. The core of the tropical easterly jet is at about 15 0 n asnani, 1992. The tropical easterly jet, which is part of the anticyclonic circulation about the asian monsoon high, forms near the tropopause. An interactive play between the inertial instability and thermal wind mechanisms. The rainfall that has been observed to be increasing over the sahel is accounted for by enhancements in both the tropical easterly jet and the african easterly jet, both of which are known to induce wet anomalies. Tropical waves from africa are an important part of the atlantic hurricane season. The temperature contrast between the sahara desert and the gulf of guinea causes the jet to form to the north of the monsoon trough. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Abstract 1 using highvertical resolution indian mesospherestratospheretroposphere mst radar and gps sonde observations from gadanki. Summer atmospheric bridging between europe and east asia. The strongest development of the jet is at about 15 km above the. Here, we examine the dynamic properties associated with the recent increase in the sahel rainfall using an ensemble of five global reanalysis datasets 19792010.
Jet origin and related words etymology of jet the word jet has several different definitions and origins. Origin and persistence of this wave train are associated with the transient eddy activity of the north atlantic. Flohn,investigations on the tropical easterly jet, bonner met. This strong flow of air that develops in the upper atmosphere during the asian monsoon is centred on 15n, 5080e and extends from southeast asia to africa. Tropical easterly jet stream meteorology britannica. Prabhakara rao 2009, characteristics of the tropical easterly jet. Because the tibet plateau is a source of heat for the atmosphere. So one needs to look at seasonal scales to explain the formation of the so called tropical easterly jet stream. This chapter talks about tropical cyclones the least desirable and most avoidable sailing conditions. Lenouo et al weak interaction in the african easterly jet 1639 where u020m. These waves are cyclonic disturbances in the tropical easterlies, and are the equivalent of the troughs that form in the polar jet stream in the middle latitudes. Aew relationship is unclear on interannual to climate time scales, and it is unknown whether aews are necessary to maintain climatological tc frequency, that is, whether tcs are limited by aews.
Amador and others published a climatic feature of the tropical americas. Atlantic tropical cyclone tc genesis is strongly linked with african easterly waves aews on the synoptic time scale. The origin and structure of easterly waves in the lower troposphere of north africa. The somali jet the monsoon wind that is deflected to the north as it crosses the equator is further deflected to the east by the mountains of africa. Citeseerx original paper origin of the pretropical. One of the most important factors among these is the system of subtropical westerly and tropical easterly jet streams. Indian monsoons role of tropical easterly jet tej african easterly jet, indian monsoons role of tibet, indian monsoons role of somali jet and indian monsoons role of indian ocean dipole. On the instability of the african easterly jet and the. The genesis of the jetstreams is provided by three kinds of gradients.
They are known both to modulate the daily rainfall over west africa e. During the same season that the waves are observed, the gradient of the monthly mean potential vorticity vanishes along the isentropic surfaces. It raises a number of questions, ranging from its formation mechanism to its maintenance, and from the causes of its intensity fluctuations to its role in generating weather systems. The origin and structure of easterly waves in the lower. The problem of tropical cyclogenesis can be studied from a variety of approaches, ranging from properties of the african easterly jet aej affecting wave development, intrinsic properties of the. Generation of the african easterly jet and its role in. What is the opposite of tropical easterly jet stream. Recent work on sahelian rainfall anomalies has concentrated on modelling of both ocean heat anomaly forcing of regional lowmid troposphere circulation and land surface forcing of precipitation processes.
Unlike the polar front jet stream, it travels in lower latitudes and at slightly higher elevations, owing to the increase in height of the tropopause at lower latitudes. Pdf interannual variation of the tropical easterly jet. What is the reason of origin of easterley jet wind. Stj sub tropical jet stream sub tropical jet stream is a narrow band of fast moving air flowing from west to east westerlies.
Part of the energy for tropical easterly jet stream comes from the intense heating of middle and upper troposphere above the tibetan plateau. Western cyclonic disturbances the western cyclonic disturbances are weather. The rain is primarily due to coalescence of droplets, with most of the clouds located below 3,500 metres 11,500 feet. Tropical cyclones full explanation what, where, when. Sahel rainfalltropical easterly jet relationship on. Tropical equatorial easterly jet stream tejs 14n this jet is a prominent feature of the upper air circulation during the indian summer monsoon season june september. The tropical easterly jet as a cause for intensified aridity in the sahara. In contrast, a single heat source in the equatorial region, even. The tropical easterly jet tej that originates in the heart of the monsoon. Indian monsoons role of tropical easterly jet tej african easterly jet. Sensitivity of the tropical easterly jet to the distribution. This paper, however, assesses the role of an upper troposphere synoptic feature of importance in modulating surface rainfall over sudan in the eastern sahel. Origin and transport of tropical cirrus clouds observed.
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