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Tropical cyclones are known to cause enormous damage and destruction in the coastal regions. The cyclones formed over the Bay of Bengal generally move in the north, northwest and northeast directions and cross Bangladesh, Myanmar and eastern coast of India. The ocean is very important source of energy for tropical cyclones (TCs). TCs intensify in areas that have high SST and deep oceanic mixed layer, thus having high upper-ocean heat content. The prediction of movement and intensity of TC is very much essential.
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Author is grateful to the Director of SMRC, Md. Shah Alam for providing opportunity to take up this programme at SMRC. The author acknowledges Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division of NCAR for providing WRF-ARW modelling system for the present study. The Grid Analysis and Display System software (GrADS) was used for analytical purposes and displaying figures.
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Alam, M. (2015). Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Cumulus Parameterisation on Meso-scale Simulation of TC Sidr over the Bay of Bengal Using WRF Model. In: Ray, K., Mohapatra, M., Bandyopadhyay, B., Rathore, L. (eds) High-Impact Weather Events over the SAARC Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10217-7_10
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