Abstract
A critical analysis of Total Column Ozone (TCO) over Dum Dum, West Bengal, India is done during different seasons for the period of 1997 to 2005. It is confirmed that pre-monsoon rate of change of TCO over Dum Dum is highly correlated with Gangetic West Bengal, India monsoon rainfall of same year and that of TCO during other seasons are independent of monsoon rainfall over Gangetic West Bengal. It is also concluded that pre-monsoon rate of change of TCO may play an important role to forecast monsoon rainfall of a particular year over Gangetic West Bengal. It is also showed that other parameters affecting monsoon rainfall are insignificant w.r.t. TCO variations. A possible explanation based on chemical kinetics of O3 are also presented.
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