@article{oai:tokyo-metro-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008255,
 author = {Konduru, Rakesh Teja and Takahashi Hiroshi G.},
 journal = {Geographical reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University},
 month = {},
 note = {This study investigates land-atmosphere coupling over South Asia during the premonsoon and monsoon seasons. We conducted three ensemble simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (version 3.8.1) as a regional climate model (RCM) coupled with the Noah land surface model (LSM). The default WRF configuration overestimates the roughness length for heat over short vegetation and underestimates the same metric over tall vegetation, leading to a larger sensible heat flux over all South Asia in both aforementioned seasons. This overestimated (underestimated) the strength of the landatmosphere coupling over larger (smaller) sensible heat flux regions. Dynamically updating the roughness length for heat as a function of canopy height in the LSM results in an error reduction for this variable for different vegetation types. This leads to weaker landatmosphere coupling for certain regions, resulting in a lower sensible heat flux, in both the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons. This reduction of sensible heating affects the formation of convection over those regions., postprint},
 pages = {23--34},
 title = {Seasonal differences in the land-atmosphere coupling over South Asia simulated using a regional climate mode},
 volume = {55},
 year = {2020}
}