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The origin of summer monsoon rainfall at New Delhi by deuterium excess
1Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou 730000, China
2Institute of Tibetan Plateau, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100029, China
Email for corresponding author: phx_anu@hotmail.com
Abstract. The deuterium excess in summer monsoon precipitation, determined from isotopic measurements(δ18O and <δD) at New Delhi, has been shown to be correlated, negatively, with relative humidity at the 1000 hPa level over the western Arabian Sea. Furthermore, summer rainfall in north-western India is correlated, positively, with the zonal wind speed at the 1000 hPa level over the western Arabian Sea, while relative humidity is correlated, negatively, with zonal wind speed at the same level. It is concluded that evaporation from the western Arabian Sea is a major source of the summer rainfall at New Delhi.
Keywords: deuterium excess, relative humidity, origin of precipitation
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Citation: Pang, Hongxi, He, Yuanqing, Zhang, Zhonglin, Lu, Aigang, and Gu, Juan: The origin of summer monsoon rainfall at New Delhi by deuterium excess, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 8, 115-118, 2004. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
