Sensitivity of the monsoon onset to differential heating.

Abstract

This paper examines some observational aspects of the evolution of energy exchanges and differential heating during the GARP Monsoon Experiment MONEX. Based on observational findings a series of numerical prediction experiments are conducted to examine the sensitivity of the monsoon onset to initially imposed fields of differential heating. The results of some 96 h integrations seem to confirm the large sensitivity in the evolution to the field of heating. -from Authors