On the association of lightning activity and projected change in climate over the Indian sub-continent

U Saha, D Siingh, AK Kamra, E Galanaki, A Maitra… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
The association of lightning activity with the long-term as well as seasonal spatio-temporal
distribution of convective available potential energy (CAPE), surface convective …

Association of thunderstorm frequency with rainfall occurrences over an Indian urban metropolis

U Saha, A Maitra, SK Midya, GK Das - Atmospheric research, 2014 - Elsevier
Thunderstorm, associated with strong convective activity in the tropics, is one of the most
prominent weather phenomena in the atmosphere. A critical analysis is done on the nature …

Spatio-temporal variability of lightning and convective activity over South/South-East Asia with an emphasis during El Niño and La Niña

U Saha, D Siingh, SK Midya, RP Singh, AK Singh… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present analysis investigates the spatio-temporal variability of the convective
parameters and associated lightning flash rates during the period 1997–2013 including the …

Association of atmospheric pollution and instability indices: A detailed investigation over an Indian urban metropolis

R Chakraborty, U Saha, AK Singh, A Maitra - Atmospheric Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Convection has a significant role in maintaining the atmospheric dynamics and
thermodynamics, particularly in the tropical regions during pre-monsoon season, which may …

Deciphering the extreme rainfall scenario over Indian landmass using satellite observations, reanalysis and model forecast: Case studies

U Saha, T Singh, P Sharma, MD Gupta, VS Prasad - Atmospheric research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we provide a comprehensive analysis of spatio-temporal distribution of extreme
rainfall of different intensities (heavy, very heavy and extremely heavy) as well as wet spell …

MLP based predictive model for surface ozone concentration over an urban area in the Gangetic West Bengal during pre-monsoon season

G Chattopadhyay, SK Midya… - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present paper reports a comparative study among two neurocomputing models in the
form of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) models and non-linear regression for the prediction of …

Prediction of convective events using multi-frequency radiometric observations at Kolkata

R Chakraborty, S Das, A Maitra - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present study, the effectiveness of nowcasting convective activities using a microwave
radiometer has been examined for Kolkata (22.65° N, 88.45° E), a tropical location. It has …

Physical and dynamical characteristics of thunderstorms over Bangladesh based on radar, satellite, upper-air observations, and WRF model simulations

KMG Rabbani, S Das, SK Panda, A Kabir… - Pure and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
The physical and dynamical characteristics of pre-monsoon (March–May) thunderstorms
(TS) are investigated over Bangladesh using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) …

East-west coastal asymmetry in the summertime near surface wind speed and its projected change in future climate over the Indian region

U Saha, R Chakraborty, A Maitra, AK Singh - Global and Planetary Change, 2017 - Elsevier
The behaviors of various meteorological parameters during 1981–2010 are investigated to
obtain any asymmetric variability of summertime near surface wind over Indian coastal …

Prediction of rain occurrence and accumulation using multifrequency radiometric observations

A Maitra, R Chakraborty - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A nowcasting technique has been proposed to estimate the impending rain accumulation
using ground-based radiometric measurements at Kolkata (22.65° N, 88.45° E), a tropical …