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Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau in northeastern India—one of the rainiest places in the world

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  • Fumie Murata
  • Taiichi Hayashi
  • Jun Matsumoto
  • Haruhisa Asada

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Monthly and daily variations in rainfall over Cherapunjee and Mawsynram on the Meghalaya plateau of northeastern India are analysed. Cherapunjee and Mawsynram are well known as two of the places with the heaviest rainfall in the world. The daily rainfall variation is attributed to the influence of synoptic scale disturbances, with a periodicity of 10–20 days, and the orographic interaction. The annual and monthly highest rainfalls over Cherapunjee during the 31 years from 1973 to 2003 were much larger than mean values. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

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  • Fumie Murata & Taiichi Hayashi & Jun Matsumoto & Haruhisa Asada, 2007. "Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau in northeastern India—one of the rainiest places in the world," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 42(2), pages 391-399, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:42:y:2007:i:2:p:391-399
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9084-z
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    2. Paweł Prokop & Adam Walanus, 2017. "Impact of the Darjeeling–Bhutan Himalayan front on rainfall hazard pattern," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 89(1), pages 387-404, October.

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