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A kinetic energy budget over the Indian region is computed for the period 4–9 July 1973, when a twin monsoon depression-one in the Bay of Bengal and another in the Arabian sea were the dominant synoptic features. The generation term caused by the cross-contour flow is a dominant source to the kinetic energy. The dissipation term is computed as a residual and is a major sink for the kinetic energy. The horizontal flux divergence is also a sink term but is much smaller in magnitude than other major source and sink terms. From the results it may be inferred that the generation term is the most important for the maintenance of monsoon disturbances.
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Singh, S.S., Kulkarni, A.A. & Bandyopadhyay, A. The kinetic energy budget of monsoon circulation over the Indian region during ISMEX-1973. PAGEOPH 119, 16–23 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878717
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