The Convective Boundary Layer over the Deccan Plateau, India during the summer monsoon

The thermodynamic structure of the Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) over the Deccan Plateau, India has been investigated using aerological data during the summer monsoon seasons of 1980 and 1981. Conserved-variable analysis and the saturation-point approach, which were used in this study, suggest that the top of the CBL varied between 700-600 mb during the monsoon. The air above the top of the CBL during a weak monsoon was estimated to have subsided for 4 days with a subsidence rate of 30 mb day-1