%0 Journal Article
%T Soil moisture initialization effects in the Indian monsoon system
%A S. Asharaf
%A A. Dobler
%A B. Ahrens
%J Advances in Science and Research (ASR)
%D 2011
%I Copernicus Publications
%R 10.5194/asr-6-161-2011
%X Towards the goal to understand the role of land-surface processes over the Indian sub-continent, a series of soil-moisture sensitivity simulations have been performed using a non-hydrostatic regional climate model COSMO-CLM. The experiments were driven by the lateral boundary conditions provided by the ERA-Interim (ECMWF) reanalysis. The simulation results show that the pre-monsoonal soil moisture has a significant influence on the monsoonal precipitation. Both, positive and negative soil-moisture precipitation (S-P) feedback processes are of importance. The negative S-P feedback process is especially influential in the western and the northern parts of India.
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