# venu

**Source**: https://caos.iisc.ac.in/venu/
**Parent**: https://caos.iisc.ac.in/faculty1/

### **Education**

- - PhD and M.S. (Univ. of Minnesota)

- - B.Tech. (IIT Madras)

### **Publications**

- V. Venugopal, J. Sukhatme, R. Murtugudde and R. Roca (Eds.),  [**Tropical Extremes: Natural Variability and Trends,**](https://www.elsevier.com/books/tropical-extremes/vuruputur/978-0-12-809248-4) \
   *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,**](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay6043) ,  ***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,**](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab51b6) ,  *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,**](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4169) \
   *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,**](https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/qj.3314) ,\
   *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**](http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/4/245) ,\
   *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**](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL069909/full) ,\
   *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**](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-016-3437-4),\
   *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**](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515002823),\
   *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**](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2633/abstract) ,\
   *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**](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581815000221) ,\
   *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**](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-013-1978-3#page-1),\
   *Climate Dynamics*, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1978-3, 2014.
- Ratan, R. and V. Venugopal,  [**Wet and dry spell characteristics of\
  global tropical rainfall**](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wrcr.20275/abstract), *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**](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626667.2012.674641#.U0PDQ9u40gQ) ,  *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**](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00703-010-0099-3) ,\
   *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**](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009JD012644/abstract), *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**](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030917080800167X),  *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**](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5804/1442.short) , ***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**](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005WR004489/abstract), *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