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Details of Technical Sessions (Updated on 10th November 2012)

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A. THEME- MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY

Technical Session 1 - Mountain Meteorology, 20/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Some features of Diurnal variation of Rainfall at Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu P. S. Kannan, Devendra Pradhan

2 Study of extreme weather over western Himalayan region during winter 2011 N. P. S. Kalha, B. P. Yadav, Naresh Kumar

3 Snow Harvesting for Farm & Hydro Energy Sectors Deepak Bhattacharya

4 Trend analysis of precipitation and temperature data for the valley of Kashmir. Sumira Nazir Zaz, Shakil Ahmad Romshoo

5 Trends of Temperature and Rainfall over Himalayan Region Nilesh K. Wagholikar, K. C. Sinha Ray, P. Pradeep Kumar

6 Climatic change and variability at two Himalayan centres varying in altitudes P.Vijaya Kumar, V. U. M. Rao, Rajendra Prasad, R. K. Singh, O. Bhavani, B. Venkateswarlu

7 Rainfall overmountainous eastern states and performance of satellite derived Quantitative Precipitation Estimate(QPE) and GFS model product.

T. N. Jha, B. K. Bandyopadhyay

8 Impact Of Meteorological Scenario On Developmental Activities In Hilly Regions S. D. Attri

9 Hydro climate studies of selected stations from Himalaya Region V. Vizaya Bhaskar

Technical Session 8 - Mountain Meteorology, 21/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Heavy Precipitation over Himachal Pradesh on 13th August 2011 - a case Study Manmohan Singh, O. P. Singh, Surender Paul

2 Moisture transport across western Himalaya during western disturbance: An investigation in the context of atmospheric rivers

Chetana Patil, Thara Prabhakaran,

Anand Karipot

3 Observational perspectives of a series of cloudburst that struck Uttarakhand state on night of 13th September, 2012

G. K. Sawaisarje, C. Y. Shirke, N. M. Narkhede

4 Agricultural drought like scenario in Manipur - remote sensing observation Jonali Goswami, Shreya Roy, S. Sudhakar

5 Temperature and rainfall variation in the Himalaya with reference to varying altitudes B. S. Tyagi, K. K. Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Shaktiman Singh

6 Trends in Discomfort Index over some of the Hill Stations in India: Mahabaleshwar, Bengaluru and Kodaikanal

K. S. Hosalikar

7 Aerosol characteristics in the Indian Himalayan foothills: Implications to climate forcing A. K. Srivastava, K. Ram, D. S. Bisht, S. Tiwari

8 Dynamic Downscaling and reanalysis of recent high precipitation events of North West Himalaya in Monsoon 2012 using WRF model

Anupriya Goyal, S. P. Aggarwal, Praveen Thakur

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B. THEME- IN SITU OBSERVATION AND NETWORKING

Technical Session 2 - In situ Observation and Networking, 20/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Raindrop size distribution over Western Ghat : A case study Kaustav Chakravarty, P. E. Raj, G.Pandithurai

2 Comparison of Rainfall from Ordinary and Automatic Rain Gauges in Karnataka Geeta Agnihotri, Jagabandhu Panda

3 Diurnal variability of stability indices observed using intense GPS Radiosonde observations over a tropical station: Comparison with microwave radiometer measurements

Y. Durga Santhi, M. Venkat Ratnam, M. Rajeevan, S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao

4 Application of Remote Sensing in Upper Air Meteorological Observations M. I. Ansari, Ranju Madan, K. C. Sai Krishnan, S. Bhatia

5 Intraseaonal variation in the surface currents of the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean observed from RAMA mooring buoy and within GODAS

Vivek Kumar Pandey

6 A meso-network of rain gauges for the validation of satellite and weather radar derived rainfall K. Sunilkumar, T. N. Rao, A. Jayaraman

7 Eddy covariance and heat flux measurements using ultrasonic anemometer over a high altitude station in the central Himalaya

Narendra Singh, Raman Solanki

8 Validation of various data products over high altitude site in Central Himalaya K. K. Shukla, D. V. Phanikumar, M. Venkat Ratnam, M. Naja, K. Niranjankumar

9 Automation of Data Processing and Transmission from IMD’s Conventional Surface Observation Network

K. S. Hosalikar, P. N. Mohanan, S. Krishnaiah M. Suresh Kumar, Y. Kushe, Ashwini Khopde Anil Kulkarni

10 Raindrop Size Distributions Of Severe Thunderstorms Over North East Region Of India S. Balaji Kumar, U.V. Murali krisna, K. Krishna Reddy, HG Pathak

11 An Indigenous make Digital Automatic Recording System and its performance at Antartica Anjit Anjan, S. G. Nanaware, R. P. Mishra, A. Barua

12 Algorithms for near real time monitoring of network of Automatic Weather Stations and Quality Control of data at TDMA type receiving Earth Station

Manish Ranalkar, M. K. Gupta, R. P. Mishra

13 Madden-Julian Oscillation over Gadanki using MST radar data winds

Polisetty Venkateswara Rao, Salauddin Mohammad, Krishna Ette, Gopa Dutta

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C. THEME- NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION

Technical Session 3 - Numerical Weather prediction, 20/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Comparison of Precipitation Outputs from General Circulation Models Over Indian Peninsula During Winter Season

Archana Nair, U. C. Mohanty, T. C. Panda

2 Performance of Global Ensemble Forecasting System (GEFS) in Tropical Cyclone Track Prediction over Western North Pacific during June-Sept 2012

R. G. Ashrit, Amit Ashish, G. R. Iyengar, E. N. Rajagopal

3 Performance of Value added Multi Model Ensemble Forecasts over Chhattisgarh during period 2008 to 2011

M.L. Sahu

4 Role of the Himalayan orography in RegCM to simulate winter precipitation over the Western Himalaya S. Kumari, P. Sinha, U. C. Mohanty, P. R. Tiwari, M. S. Shekhar

5 Characteristics of Mountain Waves over Himalayan Region: Observations and Numerical Simulations K. Niranjan Kumar, M. Venkat Ratnam, M VenkatramirReddy, K. Krishna Reddy

6 Dynamical and thermodynamical features as revealed by IMD GFS T574L64 in association with heavy rainfall event of east Rajasthan during 22-23rd August 2012.

S.I. Laskar, S. D. Kotal, S. K. Roy Bhowmik and Vivek Sinha

7 Impact of Surface Characteristics on Convective Activity of Pre-Monsoon Thunderstorms over Lower Gangetic Plains: WRF Simulation

Ananda K. Das, Mansi Bhowmik, S. K. Roy Bhowmik

8 The aerosol-land-atmosphere interactions during Indian summer monsoon Abhishek Lodh

9 Impact of radiance data assimilation on prediction of western disturbance Susmita Majumdar, Abhijit Sarkar

Technical Session 9 - Numerical Weather prediction, 21/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Application of Multi-model Ensemble Extended Range Forecast for Water Resource Management D.R. Pattanaik

2 Influence of Terrain on Meso and Synoptic Scale Weather Forecasting Jyoti Bhate, Amit P. Kesarkar, A Jayaraman

3 Evaluation of Atmospheric Water Vapor Flux Transport over India using GFS T574 and T382 during summer monsoon 2011

V.R. Durai, S. K. Roy Bhowmik

4 Impact of dual-polarization Doppler radar data on Numerical simulation of heavy rainfall Kuldeep Srivastava, S. K. Roy Bhowmik

5 Simulation of Cloudburst at Uttarkashi by using WRF model Abhijit Sarkar, Someshwar Das

6 Quantitative Precipitation Forecast over North West India using high resolution mesoscale model Sujata Pattanayak, U. C. Mohanty

7 The Role of WRF Land Surface Schemes on Weather Simulations in Delhi Region Sarika Jain, Rupender Singh, Ramesh Raghava

8 Spatial and temporal characteristics of Rainfall during the period of Tropical cyclone simulation over Bay of Bengal.

G. N. Mohapatra , P. K. Mohanty, P. Goswami

9 Influence of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes for Seasonal Scale Simulations over Western Himalaya

P. R. Tiwari, U.C. Mohanty, P. Sinha, P. V. S. Raju, M. S. Shekhar

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D. THEME- OROGRAPHIC RAIN AND MOUNTAIN CLIMATE

Technical Session 4- Orographic Rain and Mountain Climate, 20/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Comparison on the Climatology of some Hill Stations in the Himalaya G. Krishnakumar

2 Inter-annual Variability of Diurnal Temperature Range Over Western Himalaya M. S. Shekhar, Sravana Kumar, M. R. Bhutiyani, A. Ganju

3 Orographical Aspects of Rainfall over Western Ghats. Sayli Tawde, Charu Singh

4 Asymptotic solution for 3D Lee waves across Assam-Burma Hills Prasanta Das, Shyamal Kumar Mondal, Somenath Dutta

5 Long-term (1901 – 2002) Rainfall Trends in Uttarakhand State G. Pranuthi, A. K. Sharma, S. K. Dubey, S.K.Tripathi

6 Climate Change Effect on Glacier Behavior: A Case Study from North West Himalayan Glacier Pratima Pandey, G. Venkataraman

7 Planetary Boundary Layer Height over Tibetan plateau – A study using Radio Occultation and MERRA Reanalysis data

Anusha Sathyanadh, Anand Karipot, Thara Prabhakaran

8 Decreasing precipitation over Eastern Himalayan Region during 1901-2011 Naresh Kumar, B. P. Yadav

9 Analysis of long term precipitation pattern in Himachal Prades Manmohan Singh, O. P. Singh, S. C. Bhan

10 Rudraprayag Cloudburst 12-13 Sep 2012 A. Chevuturi and A. P. Dimri

11 Inter-annual variability of precipitation simulated by RegCM3 over Indian Himalaya P. Maharana, A. P. Dimri

12 Severe rainstorm studies over the Bhagirathi and the Dhauliganga river catchments in Uttarachal State. B. D. Kulkanri, N. R. Deshpande

13 Trends in seasonal frequencies of extreme temperature events over Western Himalaya during 1970-2008

D. R. Kothawale, K. Krishna Kumar

14 Climatology Of Mountain Waves Over Indian Region Based On The Study Of Noaa Satellite Imageries Prabhat Kumar

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E. THEME- AGROMETEOROLOGY

Technical Session 5- Agrometeorology, 21/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Statistical and Trend analysis of maximum and minimum Temperatures in some stations of North West India from city and agro meteorological observatories

Anasuya Roy (Mitra), S. C. Bhan, V.K. Upadhyay

2 Pre-harvest Jute Yield Forecasting for Major jute growing districts of Assam by Statistical Method Barnali Saikia, Sunit Das, Awadhesh Kumar

3 Comparing seasonal carbon exchange behavior of some invasive species in degraded forests of Western Himalaya

Nilendu Singha, Prafulla Sonia, Hukum Singhb, Joyeeta Singha , Manoj Kumarb, M.P.Singh

4 Seasonal and Interannual Energy Balance Behavior of Chir Pine Forest in Doon Valley through Micrometeorological Observations

Nilendu Singh, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, M. K. Nanda, Prafulla Sonia, Jai Singh Parihar

5 Estimating water needs of wheat (Triticum aestivum) using the crop coefficient method in the semi arid region under variable weather conditions

Ananta Vashisth, Ravender Singh, Kanchan Sharma

6 Characterization of precipitation feedback system based on land-surface, meteorological and energy balance parameters

Indrani Choudhury, Ranendu Ghosh

7 Spectral signatures of red rot affected crop of sugarcane Arun K. Srivastava, O.K. Sinha, A.K. Shrivastava, S. Solomon, R. C. Upadhyaya

8 Computation and evaluation of Thermal Humidity Index and its effect on Conception Rate Shraddha Rawat, A. S. Nain

Technical Session 12- Agrometeorology, 21/11/2012, 16:00-17:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Development of weather based Zonal yield Models for Rice ( Oryza Saliva L.) in Eastern Madhya Pradesh D.P. Dubey

2 Agro-climate information and services of the Himalayan region and strategies in coping with the climate change

K. K. Singh, N. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Sharma, B. S. Tyagi, Kripan Ghos

3 Energy Balance and Light Use Efficiency Behavior of Soybean -Wheat Crop Rotation in Central M. P

G. D. Bairagi, B. K. Bhattacharya, R. Sharma, P. K. Verma

4 Drought Assessment Of Wheat Using Short Wave Infrared (Swir) Indices In Himachl Pradesh M.H. Kalubarme, Alka Sharma

5 Study On Modification Of Radiation Environment Of Wheat ( Triticum Aestivum L.) Below Eucalyptus Tereticornis Planted In A Nelder Fan Design

Ravi Kiran, A. K. Agnihotri

6 A study on variations in photo synthetically active radiation interception of summer mungbean (vigna radiata l. Wilczek) under varied hydrothermal regimes

Ravi Kiran

7 Assessment of Agricultural Drought Vulnerablity: A Case Study Of Virudhunagar District In Tamilnadu D. Nithya, P. Ilangovan

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F. THEME- MONSOON STUDIES

Technical Session 6- Monsoon Studies, 21/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Performance of different non-parametric method for Probabilistic Multi-Model Ensemble (PMME) to predict Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall using General Circulation Models.

Nachiketa Acharya, U. C. Mohanty

2 Study of the lightning flashes, convective rain variability and solar activity during ENSO over South/Southeast Asia

Devendraa Siingh, M. N. Kulkarni, R. P. Singh

3 Deposition of aerosol over the Indo-Gangetic Plain/Bay of Bengal and its association with Indian summer monsoon rainfall

S. D. Patil, B. Preethi, S. D. Bansod, H. N. Singh, D. M. Lal

4 Summer Monsoon Variability in recent years. Sikandar M. Jamadar, Madhuri M. Musale, S. Krishnaiah, U. S. De

5 Prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using the Outgoing Long Wave Radiation Ankita Singh, U.C. Mohanty

6 Tropmet 2012 Oral Climate Science Has Indian Summer Monsoon Circulation changed in the Recent Past?

M. Venkat Ratnam, Y. Durga Santhi, B.V. Krishna Murthy, A. Jayaraman

7 Signature of thermal field over Asian region during flood and drought over India S.D Bansod

8 Statistical Analysis Of Stream Flow Changes In River Jhelum Iram Ali, Shakil Ahmad Romshoo

9 Meterological analysis of Bhagirathi River basin Chelamallu Hariprasad, G. Venkatraman, M. V. R. Murti, Manohar Arora

Technical Session 10- Monsoon Studies, 21/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Estimate Monsoon climate using NCEPs coupled model (CFSv2) Subodh Kumar Saha, Swati Shewale

2 A diagnostic study on the energetic aspects of weak/strong spell of north east monsoon Sunitha Devi, D. M. Rase, Somenath Dutta

3 Short duration rainfall analysis for disaggregating hourly rainfall S. V. Vijaya Kumar, D. Mohan Rangan , U. V. N. Rao

4 AVN Trop P. Khare, R. K. Oke

5 Probability Of Active And Break Spell Duration During El Niño And La Niña Events Suneet Dwivedi

6 Diurnal And Seasonal Variation Of Rainfall Characteristics Of Different Geographical Regions Over Kerala Sudeepkumar B. L, C. A. Babu, Jayakrishnan P. R

7 Predictability Analysis of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall using Hurst Exponent Arti Dwivedi, Suneet Dwivedi, Ashok Kumar Mittal

8 Trend in Mid- Latitude Westerly Trough at 500 h Pa in extreme summer monsoon over Indian region S.S. Dugam

9 Ocean Atmosphere coupling over the tropical Indian Ocean during contrasting monsoon phases. M.R.Ramesh Kumar, K. G. Anil Kumar

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G. THEME- REMOTE SENSING

Technical Session 7- Remote Sensing, 21/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Digitization and Data Extraction of Autographic Weather Charts Using Image Processing Tools A. S. Khopde, S. Rajasekhar, Anil Kulkarni, G. Krishnakumar, K. S. Hosalikar

2 Remote Sensing And GIS based Glacier Inventory Of Tista Sub-Basin, Brahmaputra River Basin Vanya Bajpai, A. K. Sharma

3 Atmospheric Motion Vector Retrieval using improved Tracer Selection Algorithm Inderpreet Kaur, S. K. Deb, C. M. Kishtawal, P. K. Pal, Rajkumar

4 Low level Cloud Motion Vectors from Kalpana-1 Visible Images Inderpreet Kaur, S. K. Deb, C. M. Kishtawal, P. K. Pal, Rajkumar

5 Comparison of downscaled soil moisture maps by utilizing MODIS LST and SSMI/S derived LST O. P. N. Calla, Rahul Sharma, Kishan Gadri, Abhishek kalla, Sunil kumar Agrahari, Gaurav Rathore

6 Instability Now-casting using Rule Based Fuzzy Inference System from Direct Broadcast Receiving System at IMD

A.K Mitra, A.K Sharma

7 Study of Variability of SNOW Depth and Extent of SNOW Using Passive Sensors Onboard MSMR and SSMI-1

O. P. N. Calla

8 Seasonal distribution of cloud properties over tropics from CloudSat-CALIPSO measurements Rahul Golhait ,S. K. Das

9 Estimation of wind profile from X-band Doppler radar using VAD and VVP techniques Narendra Dhangar, S. Deshpande, R. Ruchith, M. Kalapureddy, K. Chakravarty, S. Das, K. Dani, P. E. Raj

10 Study on spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide partial pressures of Arabian Sea using Remote Sensing Data

Lekshmi K, A. K Mishra

11 Examining the Cloud Systems over Tibetan Plateau during years 2008 and 2009 using CloudSat Radar observations

Kapil Dev Sindhu, G. S. Bhat

12 Preliminary study of GPS derived precipitable water vapour and its comparison with MODIS data for Central Himalaya, India

Sneh Joshi, Kireet Kumar, Bimal Pande

Technical Session 11- Remote Sensing, 21/11/2012, 14:00-15:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Infrared Spectral Radiance Measurements in the Central Himalaya Using Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer

U. C. Dumka, Manish Naja, Narendra Singh, D. V. Phani Kumar, Ram Sagar, S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, V. R. Kotamarthi

2 Arabian Sea Low Level Inversion Studies from Atmospheric Refractivity Data of METOP Satellite during Two Contrasting Monsoons

Sanjeev Dwivedi, M. S. Narayanan, D. Narayana Rao

3 Water Resource development plan of Manchi basin, Rajasthan using Remote sensing and GIS based Akram Javed, Subah Rais

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techniques.

4 Interannual variability of NDVI and its relation to rainfall over western ghats, India T. V. Lakshmi Kumar, R. Uma, S. Madhu

5 Spatial, seasonal and vertical variability of different types of tropical precipitation over India and adjoining oceans

T. N. Rao, K. Saikranthi

6 Modis Daily Snowcover Map Validation For Parts of Indian Himalaya Chelamallu Hari Prasad, G. Venkataraman M.V.R. Murti

7 Monitoring spatial drought stress by using integrated drought index in Bundelkhand region Patel N. R., Kamana Yadav

8 Turbulence intensity variation in cirrus clouds: A climatology study S. Satheesh Kumar, T. Narayana Rao

9 Generation And Packaging of INSAT CF compliant Products with a unique Approach Vivek Sharma

10 Analysis of Land Surface Temperature over Orissa during Summer using Satellite Data K. C. Gouda, Nagaraj Bhat, P. Goswami

11 MOPITT tropospheric columnar CO over the Indian subcontinent: observing the spatial variability from space

Shuchita Srivastava

12 A crictical study of Downlink frequency shift of INSAT 3A during Jan-Mar 2012 at IMD TDMA Receving Earth Station

Anjit Anjan, R. P. Mishra, Manish Ranalkar, S. Krishnaiah

Technical Session 14- Remote Sensing, 21/11/2012, 16:00-17:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Record minimum Arctic summer sea ice area as observed from enhanced resolution OSCAT data R. K. K. Singh, D. R. Rajak, Sandip R. Oza

2 Mapping And Monitoring Of Seasonal Snow Cover In Uttarakhand Himalaya Asha Thapliyal, M.M. Kimothi, Anju Panwar, I.M. Bhahuguna, B. P. Rathore

3 Rainfall thresholds for landsliding in the Himalaya of Uttarakhand: A Case study of Pilgrimage routes M. S. Rawat, Divya Uniyal, M. M. Kimothi, A. S. Arya, R. P. Rajashekhar, A.S. Rajawat

4 Planetary wave activity during the summer months of 2007 over Gadanki M. C. Ajay Kumar, P. Vinay Kumar, Salauddin Mohammad, G. Dutta

5 A comparative study of different AIRS products for the detection of near surface temperature inversion – A case study over New Delhi

Jagat Singh Heet Bisht

6 A Comparison of Oceansat-2 and QuikSCAT Scatterometer winds with in-situ buoy winds and NWP products

Priti Sharma, S. Indira Rani, M. Das Gupta

7 North –West Propagating Rain Bands Captured from IMSRA Rain Product during an Extreme Event Charu Singh

8 Rainfall Estimation Over Indian Regions Using Geostationary Kalpana-1 Satellite R.M. Gairola, Satya Prakash, C. Mahesh

9 Space inputs for watershed management: An approach for adaptability to climate change V. M. Chowdary, Y. K. Srivastava, S. S. Rao, A. Jeyaram,Y.V.N.Krishnamurthy, J. R. Sharma, V. K. Dhadwal

10 Precipitation thresholds and deterministic modelling for initiation of landslides in Garhwal Himalaya P. K. Champati Ray

11 Quality Assessment and Assimilation of Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR Radiances into WRF Assimilation System

Randhir Singh, Satya P. Ojha, C. M. Kishtawal, P. K. Pal

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H. THEME- CLIMATE SCIENCE Technical Session 13- Climate Science, 21/11/2012, 16:00-17:30, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Wet and Dry Spell Characteristics of Global Tropical Rainfall R. Ratan, V. Venugopal

2 Model biases in Climate Forecast System (CFS): Possible mechanism for bias sustenance Hemantkumar S. Chaudhari, S. Pokhrel, S. K. Saha, A. Dhakate, R. K. Yadav, K. Salunke, S. Mahapatra, C. T. Sabeerali, Suryachandra A. Rao

3 Simulations of Recent Climate Trends over the Western Himalaya: An Application of Regional Climate Model

P. Sinha, P. R. Tiwari, U.C. Mohanty, S. Kumari, M.S. Shekhar

4 Projected changes in extreme precipitation Indices under warming climate over India using CMIP5 models.

K.Koteswara Rao, S. S. Sabade, Ashwini Kulkarni, S. K. Patwardhan, K. Krishna Kumar

5 Geographical Analysis Of Rainy Days Over West Coast And Islands Of India Manjunatha S. Tyalagadi, G. Krishnakumar

6 ENSO, IOD and Indian Summer Monsoon in NCEP climate forecast system Samir Pokhrel, H. S. Chaudhari, Subodh K. Saha, Ashish Dhakate, R. K. Yadav, Kiran Salunke, S. Mahapatra, Suryachandra A. Rao

7 Solar Cycle Effects on the Temperature and Water Vaporin The Troposphere and Stratosphere Shaik Ghouse Basha, Madineni Venkat Ratnam, B. V. Krishna Murthy, M. Rajeevan, D. Narayana Rao

8 Study of Indian winter monsoon precipitation and temperature characteristics using RegCM4.3 over South Asia CORDEX Domain

Ashu Mamgain, S. K. Dash, L. Mariotti, E. Coppola, F. Giorgi

9 Inter Annual And Long-Term Variability Of Monsoon Rainfall In Kerala V.K. Mini, K. Santhosh,

Technical Session 16- Climate Science, 22/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Analysis Of South West Monsoon Rainfall Trend Using Statistical Techniques Over Nethravathi Basin H. Ramesh

2 Study Of Hadley Cell Over Asian Region Under Changing Climate Y.Kalyan Chakravarthy, Ajit Tyagi

3 Climatic variability over Gujarat, India for the past 50 years Aparna Rathore, Yogesh T. Jasrai

4 Long term trend in rainfall over Bihar during the period 1871-2011 S. I. Laskar, Naresh Kumar

5 Footprints of volcanic eruptions in temperature in the lower atmosphere over Indian longitudes R. Asokan, B. Amudha

6 Emerging role of Indian Ocean on Indian winter precipitation Ramesh Kumar Yadav

7 Long-term climate variability over the Western Himalaya based on instrumental and tree-ring records H. P. Borgaonkar

8 Signals of Climate change detected from monthly rainfall and temperature data of Uttarakhand Anand Sharma, G. B. Pant , Pooja Panwar, Disha Punetha, Rashmi Verma, Bhawna Naudiyal

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I. THEME- AIR QUALITY

Technical Session 15- Air Quality, 21/11/2012, 16:00-17:30, Venue- IIRS S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Aerosol optical properties during biomass burning period of south western Himalayan forest Rohit Srivastava, Satyendra M. Bhandari

2 Evidence Of Long Period Modulations In Aerosol Optical Depths Observed Over Central Himalayan Region

D.V. Phanikumar, K. Niranjankumar, K. K. Shukla, M. V. Ratnam, M.Naja

3 Study of air pollution and its relation to meteorological conditions over Delhi Siddhartha Singh, S. K. Peshin

4 Characteristics of Spectral Aerosol Optical Properties over Ranichauri: A High Altitude Station in the Mid-Himalaya

V. K. Soni, S. D. Attri, Sanjay Bist, C. S. Tomar, R. K. Giri

5 Multi-Year Investigation of Aerosols from a High-Altitude Site, in Central Himalaya: Climatology and Source impacts

U. C. Dumka, Raman Solanki, Ram Sagar, Hema Joshi

6 Variability in Meteorological Parameters and Trace Gases over the Central Himalaya: Observations and Model Simulations

Tapaswini Sarangi, Manish Naja, N. Ojha, R. Kumar, S. Lal, H. C. Chandola

7 Trace Gas variability in IGP region: Influences of biomass burning P. Bhardwaj, M. Naja, K.P. Singh, R. Kumar

8 Atmospheric aerosols variation during monsoon period at a urban tropical site close to Dehradun, a mountainous region of Uttrakhand, India

Adarsh Kumar

Technical Session 17- Air Quality, 22/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Aerosol characteristics at Pantnagar, an IGP site in the foot hill of the central Himalaya Hema Joshi, P. Pant, Manish Naja, K. P. Singh, H. C. Chandola

2 Effect of Long-range transport of Dust over India: An Observational Study Sanjay Bist, V. K. Soni, S. D. Attri, D. R. Pattanaik, Gajendra Kumar, C. S. Tomar, R. K. Giri, N. Puviarasan

3 Wintertime aerosol chemistry over high altitude locations in south western India P.D. Safai, M.P. Raju, K.B. Budhawant, P. S. P. Rao, G. Pandithurai

4 The changing tropospheric composition over the Himalyan region: model vursus satellite observations Varun Sheel, Shyam Lal, Andreas Richter

5 On the Monitoring and Forecasting aspects of Unusual giant Dust plume which moved to western India from West Asia by stretching across central Arabian Sea during March 2012

R. K. Jenamani, S. C. Bhan, O. P. Singh, L. S. Rathroe

6 Vertical distribution of greenhouse gases using aircraft based measurements from different locations in India

N. Chandra, S. Lal, S. Srivastava, S. Venkataramani

7 Measurement of Black Carbon and associated gaseous pollutants over a mega city (New Delhi) in India S.Tiwari, D. S. Bisht, A. K. Srivastava, A, K. K. Singh

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J. THEME- NATURAL DISASTER

Technical Session 18- Natural Disaster, 22/11/2012, 11:30-13:00, Venue- IIRS

S. No. Paper Title Authors

1 Unprecedented flood in river Mahanadi in Orissa in September, 2008 and its impact on economic development

S. C. Sahu, Y. P. Singh

2 Unusual severe weather events over Western Himalayan region during 2012 Charan Singh, B. P. Yadav, Virendra Singh, Naresh Kumar

3 Unprecedented Wide Spread Rainfall activity over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam during the 4th week (21st – 27th) of June and resulting devastating floods in Assam – a case study

Awadhesh Kumar, S. DAS

4 Coping with Cyclone Hazards over the north Indian Ocean region through regional cooperation in early warning system

R. P. Sharma, M. Mohapatra, B. K. Bandyopadhyay

5 Thermodynamic aspects of the cloud burst over Leh on 6th August 2010 Rm. A. N. Ramanathan, B. Amudha , Y. E. A. Raj

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