Publications by authors named "Balaji Kumar Seela"
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- Taiwan experiences intense summer rainfall from June to August due to its complex topography and interactions with clouds, leading to significant regional variations in precipitation.
- A study using 9 years of GPM DPR data (2014-2022) reveals different raindrop sizes and distributions across northern, southern, eastern, and central Taiwan, with central and southern areas showing higher concentrations of larger drops.
- The research emphasizes that summer monsoon rainfall is predominantly influenced by coalescence and breakup processes, which could enhance the accuracy of cloud modeling in Taiwan's diverse landscape.
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- Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclones pose significant risks to East Asian communities, affecting both life and the economy.
- This study analyzes raindrop size distributions (RSD) and their variations across different storm types and distances from the storm center using 16 years of data in north Taiwan.
- Results show that larger raindrops are more common in the inner rainbands, while a decrease in size and rainfall rate occurs with distance, revealing important factors that influence rainfall estimates in these storms.
Rainfall erosivity (or water erosion) has severe implications on agriculture, water, and land use management. Though, there were Rainfall erosivity studies on regional and global scale, tropical cyclones' Rainfall erosivity is poorly assessed and have not been documented for one of the most cyclones affecting regions of the world like Taiwan. Here, using 15-years of raindrop size distributions (RSD) and 60-years of hourly rain gauges data, we estimated cyclones (also called typhoons) rainfall erosivity over Taiwan, and establish that typhoons' mean rainfall erosivity is higher than the global mean rainfall erosivity.
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