Publication Date:
2017-02-12
Description:
A convective cloud system that large, long lived, and exhibits a quasi-circular cloud shield could be called a mesoscale convective complexes (MCC) system. These systems produce a wide variety of severe convective weather such as heavy rainfall. On January 15th, 2013, Jakarta experienced an extraordinary heavy rainfall event. In this study, we examined the propagation of the convective complex system on that date that was triggering heavy rainfall occurred in the Greater Jakarta area, using observations from the Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT)-IR and the synoptic data. The convective complex system developed from midnight of January 14th, 2013 until the morning of January 15th, 2013 and it was intensified by the influence of low-level westerly winds. The convective complex systems were generated during the nighttime of January 14th, 2013 of over Sumatera, and propagate to the Southeast through Java Sea until the northern coast of the Great Jakarta in the morning of ...
Print ISSN:
1755-1307
Electronic ISSN:
1755-1315
Topics:
Geography
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Geosciences
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Physics