On the maximum cloud zone and the ITCZ over Indian longitudes during the southwest monsoon.

Abstract

An investigation is presented of the daily variation of the maximum cloud zone (MCZ) and the 700 mb trough in the Northern Hemisphere over the Indian longitudes 70-90oE during April-October for 1973-77. It is found that during June-September there are 2 favorable locations for a MCZ over these longitudes - on a majority of days the MCZ is present in the monsson zone N of 15oN, and often a secondary MCZ occurs in the equatorial region (0-10oN).-from Authors