Education
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- PhD and M.S. (Univ. of Minnesota)
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- B.Tech. (IIT Madras)
Publications
- V. Venugopal, J. Sukhatme, R. Murtugudde and R. Roca (Eds.), Tropical Extremes: Natural Variability and Trends,
Elesvier Press, 364 pages, 2018. - Borah, P., V. Venugopal, J. Sukhatme, P. Muddebihal and
B. N. Goswami, Indian monsoon derailed by a North
Atlantic wavetrain, , Science , DOI:
10.1126/science.aay6043, 2020. - L. Alexander et
al., On the
use of indices to study extreme precipitation on sub-daily and
daily timescales, , Environmental Research Letters ,
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab51b6,
2019. - Moon, H., L. Gudmundsson, B. P. Guillod, V. Venugopal and S. I. Seneviratne, Intercomparison of daily precipitation persistence in multiple global observations and climate models,
Environmental Research Letters , DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab4169, 2019. - C. Guilloteau, R. Roca, M. Gosset and V. Venugopal, Stochastic
generation of precipitation fraction at high resolution with a
multiscale constraint from satellite observations, ,
Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society , DOI:
10.1002/qj.3314, 2018. - Salameh et
al., Fifteen years (1993-2007) of surface freshwater storage variability in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin using multi-satellite observations ,
Water, 9(4), 245; DOI:10.3390/w9040245, 2017. - V. Venugopal
and J. M. Wallace, Climatology of contribution-weighted tropical
rain rates based on TRMM 3B42 ,
Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1002/2016GL069909, 2016. - A. Bhattacharya, A. Chakraborty and V. Venugopal, Role of aerosols in modulating cloud properties during active-break cycle of Indian summer monsoon,
Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3437-4, 2016. - V. Venugopal,
K. Virts, J. Sukhatme, J. M. Wallace and B. Chattopadhyay, A comparison of the fine-scale structure of the diurnal cycle of tropical rain and lightning,
Atmospheric Research, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.09.004, 2015. - J. Sukhatme
and V. Venugopal, Waxing and waning of observed extreme annual tropical rainfall ,
Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1002/qj.2633, 2015. - F. Papa et al., Satellite-derived surface and sub-surface water storage in the
Ganges-Brahamputra River Basin ,
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, DOI:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.03.004, 2015. - A. Bhattacharya, A. Chakraborty and V. Venugopal Variability of
cloud liquid water and ice over South Asia from TMI estimates,
Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1978-3, 2014. - Ratan, R. and V. Venugopal, Wet and dry spell characteristics of
global tropical rainfall, Water Resources Research, 49,
DOI:10.1002/wrcr.20275, 2013. - Suprit, K., D. Shankar, V. Venugopal, and N. V. Bhatkar,
Simulating the daily discharge of the Mandovi river, west coast of
India , Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI:10.1080 /
02626667.2012.674641, 2012. - Sahany, S., V. Venugopal, and R. S. Nanjundiah, The 26 July
2005 heavy rainfall event over Mumbai: Numerical modeling aspects ,
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, DOI:10.1007 /
s00703-010-0099-3, 109, 115-128, 2010. - Sahany, S., V. Venugopal, and R. S. Nanjundiah, Diurnal scale
signatures of monsoon rainfall over the Indian region from TRMM
satellite observations, Journal of Geophysical Research,
Atmospheres, DOI:10.1029 / 2009JD012644, 115, D02103, 2010. - Roux, S. G., V. Venugopal, K. Fienberg, A. Arneodo, and
E. Foufoula-Georgiou, Evidence for inherent nonlinearity in temporal
rainfall, Advances in Water Resources ,
DOI:10.1016 / j.advwatres. 2008.09.007, 32 (1), 41-48, 2009. - B. N. Goswami, V.
Venugopal, D. Sengupta, M. Madhusoodanan and Prince
K. Xavier, Increasing trend of extreme rain events over India in a warming environment , Science, 314, 1442, doi: 10.1126/science.1132027, 2006. - Venugopal, V., S. G.
Roux, E. Foufoula-Georgiou and A. Arneodo,
Revisiting multifractality of high resolution
temporal rainfall using a wavelet-based formalism, Water Resources
Research, 42 (W06D14), DOI:10.1029/2005WR004489, 2006.
Students
Current
- Pritam Borah (PhD)
- Sayan Jana (PhD)
- Walter Samuel (PhD; ICWaR)
- Saubhik Das (PhD; ICWaR)
Former
- Ram Ratan (PhD, 2016; MS 2009); currently PostDoc at IIT Bombay.
- Anwesa Bhattacharya (PhD, 2016; jointly with Arindam Chakraborty); currently PostDoc at Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems.
- Sandeep Sahany (PhD, 2010; jointly with Ravi Nanjundiah); Faculty, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi.
- Rajat Joshi (M.Tech., 2020); currently enrolled for PhD at Princeton University
- Vaibhav Bathri (M.Tech., 2018); currently at Airbus, Bangalore
- Malarvizhi Arulraj (M.Tech., 2014); currently enrolled for PhD at Duke University
- Pranesh Muddebihal (M.Tech., 2014); currently at Function Space Labs, Pune.
- Bodhi Chattopadhyay (M.S., 2013); currently at Swiss Re Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
- Karthik Madhyastha (M.S., 2013); currently at ATREE, Bangalore.
- Charu Singh (M.S., 2007); currently at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun.
Research interests
- Stochastic Hydrology
- Space-time Structure and Scale-invariance of Precipitation
- Tropical Rainfall and its Extremes
- Hydrological Modelling
Teaching
- Mathematical Methods in Climate Science (AS209)