The present work analyses climatological variations of Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) and Inhibition (CIN) over the eastern India (Odisha, West Bengal Jharkhand) during pre-monsoon season, where thunderstorms are frequent disastrous. utilises European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) reanalysis data: ERA-5 1987-2016, supplemented with information about thunderstorm...

Recent work has produced a theory for tropical convective available potential energy (CAPE) that highlights the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) scaling of the atmosphere’s saturation deficit as a driver of increases in CAPE with warming. Here we test this so-called “zero-buoyancy” theory for CAPE by modulating the saturation deficit of cloud-resolving simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium in ...