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 …

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 …

Relationship of convective precipitation with atmospheric heat flux—a regression approach over an Indian tropical location

S Chakraborty, U Saha, A Maitra - Atmospheric Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The response of atmospheric heat fluxes and sea surface temperatures on the convective
precipitation over the tropics has been an important area of research in recent decades. A …

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 …

Tropopause height characteristics associated with ozone and stratospheric moistening during intense convective activity over Indian sub-continent

BK Guha, R Chakraborty, U Saha, A Maitra - Global and Planetary Change, 2017 - Elsevier
In this present investigation, a threefold analysis has been portrayed to comprehend the
atmospheric dynamics at the Tropopause height on both short and long term basis over the …

Anomalies in relative humidity profile in the boundary layer during convective rain

R Chakraborty, S Talukdar, U Saha, S Jana… - Atmospheric research, 2017 - Elsevier
Radiometric observations of relative humidity profile at Kolkata show a significant fall at
around 1 to 2 km height during convective rain events. An extensive investigation shows that …

Spatio-temporal synoptic variability of aerosol optical depth and cloud properties over the Central North region of India through MODIS collection V satellite sensors

A Kumar - Indian Journal of Physics, 2016 - Springer
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) values at 550 nm derived from the Moderate-resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors have been analyzed in the present study. The retrieved …