Updated list of abstracts accepted for ORAL/POSTER presentation during the TROPMET – 2018 by the Scientific Committee to be held in Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi during 24-27 October, 2018.

Abstract Name & Organisation Title of paper Status ID N. Naveena, K. L. Frequencies of heat waves over India in the global warming PhD 1 ORAL University era Impact of moisture and heat index on tree ring-width records 2 Somaru Ram, IITM ORAL over the western Himalaya in India A.K.Srivastava, CLIMATE VARIABILITY ANDITS IMPACT ON WHEAT YIELD AND 3 College of Agriculture, POSTER ACREAGE IN MADHYA PRADESH JNKVV Hot days, heatwaves, and severe heatwaves, over India in the 4 Arulalan T, IIT Delhi ORAL 1.5°C and 2°C warmer worlds Skill Evaluation of Extended Range Forecast of Rainfall and 5 Susmitha Joseph, IITM ORAL Temperature over Meteorological Subdivisions of India Assessing the role of meteorological factors on human health 6 Raju Mandal ORAL in India and its Extended Range Prediction Variability appraisal of ocean surface wind vector over NIO Ananya Halder, 7 with NCEP-NCAR, Era-Interim , CCMP and SCATSAT-1 ORAL University of Calcutta observations Ensemble – based Sensitivity Analysis for a heavy rainfall event PhD 8 Babitha George ORAL over Uttarakhand State DISTRIBUTION OF OXIDE OF NITROGEN OVER THE INDIAN 10 Pubali Mukherjee SUBCONTINENT: INVESTIGATION OF SOURCES USING ORAL CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL Socio economic impacts of extreme weather events in relation 11 D.M.Rase ORAL to landslides over India with respect to Climate Change Impact of flow - dependent ensemble error covariance in the 12 Rekha B Gogoi three – dimensional variational data assimilation method in a ORAL limited area model over the month of July 2013 Vineet Kumar Singh, The unusual long track and sudden intensification of very PhD 13 POSTER IITM severe Kandula V Tendencies of Tropical Cloud Clusters Transformation into 14 Subrahmanyam, SPL, ORAL Tropical Cyclones ISRO Kandula V PhD Vertical structure of latent heating associated with various 15 Subrahmanyam, SPL, ORAL types of clouds over the Indian summer monsoon region ISRO Improving the accuracy of PM2.5 mass by using chilled Teflon 16 K.K. Shukla, ORAL filter Sampler Poulomi Chakravarty, PhD Comparative analysis of observed energy fluxes during pre- 17 Central University of ORAL monsoon thunderstorms at Ranchi, India Jharkhand Investigation of the role of microphysical parameterizations on Rohit Srivastava, 18 precipitation and black carbon prediction in regional climate ORAL ICCSIR model Impact of sea-spray induced flux on : A cause PhD Kumar Ravi Prakash, 19 study during Vardahcyclone over the Bay of Bengal using ORAL IIT Delhi COAWST model An investigation on the effect of meteorological parameters on 20 Arun S H, SAC ORAL the evolution of fog over the Indo-Gangetic plains using 1

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ENERGETICS ASPECTS OF THE CYCLONIC STORMS DURING 2013 21 Sudheesh TM ORAL AND ANOMALOUS CYCLOGENESIS OVER INDIAN SEAS Viral A. Dave, DAIICT, PhD 22 Desertification hot spot identification using Aridity Index ORAL Gandhinagar Dr. Neha, BHU, Effect of climate change and study on yield gaps on wheat in 23 POSTER Varanasi Indo-Gangetic Plains Devendraa Siingh, Particle formation during splashing of raindrops on the ground 24 POSTER IITM surface Somenath Dutta, IMD, A pilot study on Assessing effect of climate on the incidence of 25 ORAL Pune vector borne diseases at Pune Somenath Dutta, IMD, A Recent initiative, taken in India Meteorological Department 26 POSTER Pune towards Climate Services for Health sector Kuldeep Srivastava, Nowcast of the squally wind using Doppler weather Radar 27 ORAL IMD 2nd aouther (DWR) products Boreal summer tropical rainfall climatology simulation using 28 Sooraj K P, IITM ORAL state-of-the-art climate coupled models Shekhar Kumar, A Review of Hydro-meteorological Studies in Context to 29 POSTER IGNOU, New Delhi Climate Change in Beas Basin of North-Western India Case Study of Severe Thunderstorm Activity Over Chhattisgarh 30 M L Sahu, IMD ORAL on 21ST May 2016 Temporal variation of surface-layer parameters and turbulent PhD Nilamoni Barman, 31 kinetic energy budget in a topographically complex terrain over POSTER NESACM Umiam, India Dr. Arup Borgohain, Spatial variation of Single scattering albedo and asymmetric 32 POSTER NESACM parameter over the Eastern Himalayan region Transport of trace gases via eddy shedding from the Asian 33 Chaitri Roy summer monsoon and associated impacts on POSTER ozone heating rates Long-term observations of black carbon aerosol over a rural 34 V. Ravi Kiran, NARL location in southern peninsular India: Role of dynamics and ORAL meteorology Vivek Kumar Pandey, Volume and heat transport of Indonesian throughflow using a 35 University of POSTER fine resolution ocean model Allahabad Subhasis Banerjee, Study of cloud micro-physical properties of low height warm 36 POSTER Bose Institute, Kolkata cloud from MODIS level-2 data over Indian region Soumya Mohan, IIT Evaluation of CMIP5 climate model projections of surface wind 37 POSTER Kharagpur speed over the Indian Ocean region S. Chattopadhyay, Climate Variability and its impacts on the weather of Damodar 38 POSTER IMD Kolkatta Valley area Ushnanshu Dutta, Importance of Ice-Microphysics on Simulation of Indian PhD 39 POSTER IITM Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation ParminderKaur, A one year source apportionment study of black carbon PhD 40 POSTER Tripura University aerosols over Agartala S. K. Bhattacharya, 41 Why the tropical cyclone "Ockhi" was a difficult case to predict ORAL IMD Prediction of Indian Summer-Monsoon Onset Variability: A 42 maheswar pradhan ORAL Season in Advance Structure, characteristics, and simulation of monsoon low- 43 Ankur Srivastava ORAL pressure systems in CFSv2 coupled model Studying the impact of dust aerosols in formation of PhD 44 Jagabandhu Panda ORAL theAphelion Cloud Belt over Martian tropics

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PANKAJ BHARDWAJ, The Influence of ENSO on Bay of Bengal Tropical Cyclone PhD 45 POSTER KurukshetraUniversity Activity PANKAJ BHARDWAJ, Modulation of Bay of Bengal Tropical Cyclone Activity by the PhD 46 ORAL KurukshetraUniversity ElNino-Southern Oscillation Climate Variability and Extreme Events in India: The Socio- 47 Dr. Ivy Das Gupta ORAL economic Consequences On the Association Betweenthe Western Pacific Convective 48 B. Preethi Systems, Strength of ElNino/LaNina and the Indian Summer ORAL Monsoon Activity Influence of Atmospheric Rivers in the Occurrence of D. Dhana Lakshmi, IIT 49 Devastating FloodAssociated with Extreme Precipitation Events ORAL Kharagpur over Chennai using differentReanalysis Data Sets Salient features of Thunderstorms over Bay of Bengal and GURUNATH 50 Adjoining North East India during active phase of Indian ORAL CHINTHALU Summer Monsoon: A Case study Seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in 51 Ashish Dhakate, IITM ORAL NCEP CFSv2: forecast and predictability error Kiran Dhanraj Potential predictability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in 52 POSTER Salunke, IITM NCEP CFSv2 Dr. Aditi Singh, Prediction of Visibility over Indian Region using Regional 53 ORAL NCMRWF Configuration of NWP Model during Fog Kanwar Ajay Singh, 54 Extreme Weather & Upper Air Profiling POSTER IMD PhD 55 Rachana Kulkarni OVERVIEW OF FOG CHEMISTRY DURING WiFEX-2015-18 POSTER Madhusmita Swain, Teleconnection of large scale processes on heavy rainfall over 56 ORAL IIT Bhubaneswar Odisha during summer monsoon season Impact of Different Ocean Conditions and its Response in the Shyama Mohanty, IIT 57 Bay of Bengal using HWRF-HYCOM idealized Frame-work for ORAL Bhubaneswar Tropical Cyclone Prediction Prediction of Cyclones & IoT based Automatic Weather 58 A.K.Singh, IMD POSTER Station Changes in the northeast monsoon rainfall over South PhD 59 R. H. Lucy Supriya ORAL Peninsular India in the recent three decades Manas R Mohanty, IIT Seasonal Prediction of Indian Summer Monsoon; A dynamical 60 ORAL Bhubaneswar downscaling perspective 61 Dr. Rajesh prakash Earthquake vis-à-vis Weather prediction ORAL 62 Dr. Rajesh prakash Mitigating Earthquake Hazard: Future perspectives POSTER Ashish Routray, Impact of DWR Precipitation Estimates on Simulation of Heavy 63 ORAL NCMRWF Rainfall Events Subsurface ocean biases in climate models and its implications 64 Shikha Singh, IITM ORAL in the simulated interannual variability Sandipan Mukherjee, GB Pant National Investigation of new convective atmospheric surface layer 65 ORAL Institute of Himalayan scaling parameters over complex terrain of Himalaya Environment

Using Smart Phones and Crop Model for yield estimation prior 66 Dr B K Singh ORAL to harvest Developing of a tool for demand supply balancing

JAYASHREE V. RECENT CHANGES IN FREQUENCIES OF MODERATE TO HEAVY 67 ORAL REVADEKAR RAINFALL EVENTS AND ITS TELECONNECTIONS S. RavindraBabu, Indian Summer Monsoon Onset signatures on the Tropical 68 ORAL NARL Tropopause Layer

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Rainfall prediction for the state of Gujarat using deep learning 69 Tapan Bhavsar POSTER technique Dr. SREEKANTH T S, Seasonal variations of Raindrop Size Distribution in different 70 ORAL NCESS rain types at a tropical coastal site Identifying the best probability distribution of rainfall for 71 Hemlata Bharwani ORAL drought monitoring in India Comparative study of district wise monsoon rainfall in recent 72 Anupam Kashyapi ORAL years over Maharashtra Study of particle loading over the three major biomass burning 73 MahakGumber POSTER regions across the globe A case study of respiratory diseases and absorbing aerosol 75 Meghna Mittal, IIRS ORAL loadings over three densely populated countries of the world Statistical characteristics of the cloud cells in the contrasting 76 Savita B. Morwal, IITM monsoon seasons over the rain-shadow region of peninsular ORAL India Unfolding the mechanism of coupling between cloud and large 77 SAUMYENDU DE, IITM scale circulation during Indian summer monsoon revealed from ORAL CFSv2 model experiment Medha Deshpande, Understanding the genesis mechanism of Severe Cyclonic 78 ORAL IITM Storm Mora and its prediction Modeling aerosol loading due to forest fires over Indian 79 Dinesh Kumar Trivedi ORAL landmass M.T.Bushair, Impact of Geostationary Clear Sky radiances assimilation on 80 ORAL NCMRWF the wind field over the Indian Ocean region A systematic review of the effects of climate change on 81 Divya Jain, TERI POSTER electricity consumption Effect of convectively coupled equatorial waves on daytime 82 Zore Tukaram, IITBBS ORAL temperature distribution over India A case study on Dust Storms occurred over Uttar Pradesh in 84 J P Gupta, IMD ORAL May’2018 Buddhi Prakash Characterization of the impact of hyper-spectral radiances in 85 ORAL Jangid, NCMRWF the 4D-VAR assimilation system Hamza Varikoden, Extremes in Southwest Monsoon Rainfall over Northeast 86 ORAL IITM Regions of India and its association with Largescale Circulation Sensitivity of WRF model, using different combination of cloud Abhishek Chhari, microphysics and planetary boundary layer schemes to 87 ORAL NESAC simulate features related to thunderstorm event over north east India An apparent relationship between the Interannual variability of 88 Keshav Arora the 10-25 & 30-60 day variation during Indian summer ORAL monsoon season Raghu Nadimpalli, IIT State-of-the-art high resolution mesoscale modelling in 89 ORAL Bhubaneswar prediction of intense vortices over Bay of Bengal Role of geo-potential height in estimating the variability in 90 Chayan Roychoudhury ISMR: A comparative Study with NCEP-NCAR and CFSR POSTER Reanalysis Analysis of Extreme Rainfall Event due to Cloud burst using 91 Payoshni Samantray ORAL Multiscale Observation and Non Hydrostatic Model Information System of IMD: Role in understanding Weather 93 S L Singh, IMD ORAL and Climate Variability Rhituparna Gogoi, Long-term variability of Surface water and agriculture in Ganga 94 POSTER Guwahati university basin Saurabh Mangesh 95 Kelkar, Pune Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production in Maharashtra. POSTER university 4

Impact Analysis of dynamical downscaling on the treatment of PhD 96 Roshny S, SPL convection in a regional NWP model COSMO: A case study ORAL during the passage of a cyclonic storm Wave-Current Interaction studies using a Coupled ADCIRC- Bishnupriya Sahoo, IIT SWAN model for a Hypothetical Bathymetry in the Gulf of 97 ORAL Kharagpur Mannar featuring Setu Samudram Navigation Channel through Adam’s Bridge A multivariate analysis of surface ozone and its precursors over Goutami 98 a polluted zone of Kolkata, India and quantification of the ORAL Chattopadhyay intrinsic uncertainty through Shannon entropy Ayantika Dey A phenomenological paradigm for mid-tropospheric 99 ORAL Choudhury, IITM cyclogenesis in the Indian Summer Monsoon Sudip Kumar Kundu, Rainfall pattern inferred from CORDEX-SA domain models for 100 ORAL IIRS future warming scenarios over Northwest Himalayan region Ashim Kumar Mitra, Monitoring Weather and Climate Extremes from INSAT-3D 101 POSTER IMD satellite over the Indian region and future aspects Monitoring Soil Wetness Estimation for recent Jammu and Ashim Kumar Mitra, 102 Kashmir Flood using Microwave channel from NOAA/Metop POSTER IMD Satellites A study on Sea-breeze circulation using COSMO model over PhD 103 Freddy P Paul, SPL ORAL Thumba coast during winter months Performance evaluation of COSMO model during ICARB field PhD 104 Freddy P Paul, SPL ORAL experiment Tropical upper tropospheric humidity variation and plumes due 106 M. Sandhya ORAL to potential vorticity intrusions over Indian sector Now-cast of Thunderstorm event over Delhi NCR with 107 Priya Bharati ORAL assimilation of Doppler Weather Radar data in ARPS Model The Rainfall Analysis over Rainfed Areas over 108 SandhyaRavikiran,IMD ORAL Marathawada&Vidarbha Climatic variability and trend for strategic crop planning in 109 Sanjay Bhelawe ORAL Raipur district of Chhattisgarh Studies on impact of balanced fertilizer dose as compared to 110 Sanjay Bhelawe farmers' dose using DSSAT modelling in rice crop for POSTER Chhattisgarh state Impact of Positive and Negative IOD Events on the Regional Biswarup Das, Cochin 111 Climate based on Rainfall Pattern Associated with Heat Budget POSTER University Components Characteristics of winter precipitation and associated dynamics 112 T.M Midhuna ORAL over north west India using CORDEX-South Asia Experiments 113 P. Kumar, JNU Indian Summer Monsoon variability over North East India (NEI) POSTER 114 P. Rai, JNU Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon during solar activities ORAL Investigation of dry bias in a coupled regional land-atmosphere 115 Dhirendra Kumar, JNU POSTER model over Indian region Ascent and descent rates of inflated meteorological balloons 117 Appa Rao B.V, ISRO ORAL and some observations Study of 20-year simulations of monthly vertical wind U. K. CHOUDHARY, 118 profile and water vapour mixing ratio during Indian summer ORAL IMD monsoon season over Nishtha Agrawal, Interaction of Surface Heat Fluxes with Mid Level Vortex in 119 University of ORAL Tropical Cyclone Mora Allahabad Climatology of WaterVapourand temperature variation in Delhi 120 N.Puviarasan and Bangalore – A study from eight years of Total Precipitable ORAL Water Vapour derived from GPS receiver.

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Seasonal and Inter-annualvariation of CO2 at high altitude 121 Srabanti Ballav, ARIES POSTER mountain sites of Asia: Observed vs Model An analysis of Snow Cover changes in the winter season over 122 Soubhik Biswas ORAL the Western and Central Himalayan region (2000 – 2018) Vertical distribution of dust, polluted dust and smoke over 123 Soubhik Biswas POSTER different parts of Indian region Absorbing aerosol distribution across the Eastern Himalayan 125 Arka Ghosh ORAL region Climatology of pre-monsoon echoes observed by Tropical 126 Geeta Agnihotri Rainfall Measuring Mission's Precipitation Radar over south ORAL peninsular India and neighborhood 127 Geeta Agnihotri Synoptic analogue model for Cauvery basin POSTER Bhupendra Bahadur Subseasonal response of Lower Stratospheric water vapor to 128 POSTER Singh the Asian summer monsoon Sensitivity of the 4DVar assimilation system to the control PhD Deepak 129 variables: A case study on Uttarakhand cloudburst event POSTER Gopalakrishnan (2013) Verification of temperature forecast by an Ensemble 131 Nilkamal Jaisawal ORAL Forecasting System Analysis of the three dimensional structure of winds and 132 Arun Nair ORAL precipitation of Cyclone “Ockhi” A Brief Climatology of Significant Pre-monsoon Hailstorms in 133 ABHISHEK ANAND POSTER Punjab and Haryana in last Five year from 2014-2018 Occurrence of Cirrus clouds and its effect on the thermal 134 Saleem Ali, SRM ORAL structure of tropical tropopause layer (TTL) Impacts of Climate Variability on Sugarcane productivity using 135 R. K. Chaudhari, BHU DSSAT CANEGRO V-4.6.1 model over Lakhimpur-Kheri District ORAL of Uttar Pradesh Piyush Srivastava, IIT Parametrization of Surface fluxes in Atmospheric Models over 136 ORAL Delhi Indian Region Is the Spatial Hurst Exponent Method for Detecting a 137 Uday Pratap Singh ORAL Changepoint Reliable? A study on the changes of Indian Summer Monsoon (ISMR) 138 Prasanth A Pillai, IITM ORAL variability and its prominent patterns after 2000. Sudeepkumar B. L, Variation of Surface Boundary Layer Characteristics during 139 ORAL Cochin university Active and Weak Phases of Southwest Monsoon over Kochi Gireesh B, Andhra VARIABILITY OF LATENT HEAT FLUX OVER THE BAY OF BENGAL 140 ORAL University AND ARABIAN SEA AND ITS CONNECTION TO IOD EVENTS Venkateswarlu Ch, A Study on Variability of Equatorial Indian Ocean Currents by 141 POSTER Andhra University using OSCAR, Model and observed in-situ current data Neural Network Model for prediction of Rainfall during North- 142 Kanchan V. Shende ORAL East monsoon season using ocean parameters Assessment of hydrometeorological variables over the Pahuj 143 S. Pratap, BHU POSTER River basin using WRF model Chayan Impact of Climate Change on Butterfly Population over a 145 Roychoudhury, ORAL Metropolis of India University of Calcatta REGIONAL VARIABILITY OF INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON AND 146 Hrudya P. H ORAL ITS INFLUENCE ON THE LOWER TROPOSPHERIC STABILITY Patterns of climate-induced migrations and the methodologies: PhD 147 Badsha Sarkar POSTER a review of literature T.V Ramesh Reddy, Characteristics of thermal internal boundary layer(TIBL) over a 148 POSTER SRM tropical coastal station Chennai

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Study on irrigation requirement of barley using decision 149 Sanu Kumar Saha support tool under warming climatic conditions in Punjab, ORAL India Bathymetry retrieval from Multi- and Hyper- spectral remote 150 Nikhil Kumar Baranval POSTER sensing data in Optically-Shallow water Dr. CMIP3 and CMIP5 simulated Summer Monsoon Rainfall and 151 ORAL PradhanParthSarthi associated Wind Circulation over India Evaluation of satellite based Evapotranspiration estimates over 152 Rajani Kumar Pradhan ORAL Kosi River Basin, India Ground-based aerosol optical and microphysical properties 153 P. Agrawal, BHU ORAL over South Asia: Aerosol climatology and recent trends IS INDIA UNDER THE THREAT OF FOOD INSECURITY? HOW 154 Nivrita Ghosh ORAL MUCH IS CLIMATE CHANGE/VARIABILITY RESPONSIBLE FOR IT? Satellite based approximation of Vertically Integrated Moisture 155 Swati Bhomia, SAC ORAL Transport over the Indian ocean Indira Rani S., Impact of INSAT-3D and 3DR Imager radiances in the 157 ORAL NCMRWF NCMRWF’s Assimilation and Forecast System Seshapriya EMISSION INVENTORY PREPARATION AT DIFFERENT SECTORS 158 POSTER Venkitasamy IN MADURAI 159 S. D. Sanap, IMD On the dynamics of the Chennai floods-2015 ORAL Numerical Simulation of Lightning activity and its role on NOx PhD 160 Arshini Saikia POSTER production over Eastern Himalayas Impact of microphysics parameterizations and horizontal PhD 161 Lakhima Chutia resolutions on simulation of “MORA” tropical cyclone over Bay ORAL of Bengal using Numerical Weather Prediction Model 162 Sivaiah B Spatial and Temporal extent of Oil Spill by using SAR imagery POSTER Analysis of diurnal nature of spatial variability of Land Surface PhD 163 B. Anasuya, IIT Delhi Temperature in Delhi NCR using Sentinel 3 and INSAT ORAL 3Dsatellite data during summer,2018 K. Naga Lakshmi, Impact of Rossby wave breaking on Indian summer monsoon PhD 164 ORAL Andhra University depressions and ISO An observation based approach for fog forecasting over the 165 Saumya G Kutty ORAL Indo-Gangetic plains A simplified laboratory analogue for the turbulence structure 166 Abhishek Gupta, IITM POSTER of low-level jets Analysis of severe weather using RGB scheme of INSAT-3D 167 Shailesh Parihar, IMD ORAL satellite at IMD New technology of RAPID and RGB of INSAT-3D/3DR satellite Ashim Kumar Mitra, for extreme weather forecast/nowcast improvement at IMD 168 ORAL IMD during 2015 to 2018 : Lightning data with INSAT-3D satellite, A New Initiative for Nowcast services Dr. V. Vizaya Bhaskar, Impact of dust storms on aerosol characteristics and radiative 169 ORAL IMD forcing at Jodhpur. 170 Kameshwary CA Bengalurueans get 2 litres of water from rainfall per day POSTER INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL PREDICTION OF INDIAN SUMMER PhD 171 Feba Francis POSTER MONSOON Assessment of WRF Rainfall Simulations Over the North- 172 Aniket Chakravorty Eastern Region of India with respect to Satellite and Gauge POSTER Rainfall. Sobhan Kumar Size distribution and mixing state of black carbon aerosol in the 173 ORAL Kompalli, SPL Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP) outflow Vikas Kumar Impact of Indian Summer Monsoon on Post-Summer Monsoon 174 ORAL Kushwaha Tropical Cyclones

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Vivek Seelanki, IIT Simulation of the biogeochemistry of the Indian Ocean using 175 ORAL Delhi an Ecosystem model Changes in Chemical composition of the Stratosphere during 176 Jinee Gogoi Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events over Western region of POSTER India ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY SUITABILITY FOR 177 Lakhvinder Kaur DRINKING AND IRRIGATION PURPOSES IN PANIPAT DISTRICT, POSTER HARYANA, INDIA 178 Ankita Singh, BHU Verification of Ensemble Forecasting of geopotential height ORAL Rainfall Estimation OverOceans UsingGlobal Precipitation 179 Neha Rajput, ISRO Mission (GPM) Microwave Imager and Dual Frequency Radar ORAL Observations A Study of Supercellstorm in Bihar and its analysis of 182 Anand Shankar POSTER thermodynamic condition,evolution,structure and movement Role of land-atmosphere interactions in convection and 183 Devanshu Kanaujia ORAL precipitation Comparison and Analysis of Cold Wave and Severe Cold Wave 185 Priyanshu Gupta POSTER Events over Indo-Gangetic Plain Simulation of precipitation associated with Western 186 Ashish Navale ORAL Disturbance over North Western Himalaya using WRF Atmospheric aerosols variation and its correlation with 187 Arti Choudhary POSTER meteorological and optical parameters Akhilesh Mishra, Dynamical Downscaling of Indian Monsoon Climate using 188 ORAL Amity Jaipur Regional Coupled RSM-ROMS Model at 10 Km resolution Modeling of raindrop size distribution over Darjeeling ( India): 189 shyam mehta POSTER Using Micro Rain Radar PRIYANKA VERMA, 190 ENSO impact on crop production over Indo-Gangetic Plain ORAL BHU Study on extreme rainfall events over India during the recent 191 Suthinkumar P S ORAL decades WAVE CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND ESTIMATION OF WAVE PhD 192 Biplab Sadhukhan ORAL ENERGY ALONG COASTAL SEAS OF INDIA Exploring the satellite rainfall behavior over Western Ghats of 193 Manoj Kumar Thakur ORAL India using GPM and TMPA products Characteristics and Emission Sources of Atmospheric Aerosols 194 Pradeep Kumar, BHU POSTER over Varanasi Importance of the Resolution of Surface Topography Vis-à-Vis 195 Shipra Jain, IITD Atmospheric and Surface Processes in the Simulation of the ORAL Boreal Summer Climate of Himalaya-Tibet Highland Skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall prediction in multiple 196 Shipra Jain, IITD POSTER seasonal prediction systems Numerical study of Inertia gravity Waves observed over 197 Amal Joy ORAL tropical station Cochin Pramod Kumar Yadav, 198 Seasonal dynamics of solar radiation over Varanasi U.P. POSTER BHU The phase velocity method gives more accurate thickness of 199 Ramkrishna Datta Love seismic surface waves from seismogram data than that ORAL found by group velocity method. Nisha Kurian, Cochin Characteristics of zonal and meridional winds above Maitri, 200 ORAL Universitry Antarctica Vinjamuri V S A P M Variation of outgoing longwave radiationwithaerosol optical 201 Kameswara Sarma, ORAL propertiesas observed from space overIndia IIRS Estimation of turbulence parameters using spectrum width 205 Athulya S ORAL observed by the 205 MHz Radar at Cochin 8

Impact of Surface Wind Assimilation in Track and Intensity 206 Sujata Pattanayak ORAL Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over Indian Seas Morphological response of Himalayan Rivers under the climate PhD 207 Amit Kumar POSTER change Radiative properties, rainfall scavenging and source 208 Dr. M. P. Raju apportionment of atmospheric Black Carbon at high altitude ORAL station in Western Ghats during the monsoon season. Heavy Metal Characteristics, Enrichment and Assessment of 209 Dinesh Sah the Health Risks Posed by Heavy Metals in PM2.5at Indo- ORAL Gangetic Site 210 G. Ch. Satyanarayana Heat waves over India during the 20th and 21st century ORAL Diagnostic analysis of severe thunderstorm triggered by 211 R. S. Sharma POSTER cyclone Roanu over Eastern India Dwijendra Nath INSAT-3D derived OLR variability with rainfall during monsoon 212 POSTER Pandey over Indian region 213 Sandeep Wagh Microphysics of Warm Fog in Polluted Boundary Layer ORAL Are recent increased fatalities due to lightning activity in India 214 Manish Ranalkar related to increase in lightning activity owing to climate ORAL change? Simulations of vertical wind profile and water vapour mixing 215 U. K. Choudhary ORAL ratio during Indian summer monsoon season over Arabian Sea Climate change in Eastern Karakoram Region: Current and PhD 217 Neha Kanda POSTER Future Scenarios Extreme rainfall events in Northeast India and their association 218 Roja Ch., IITM POSTER with Indo-Pacific Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures Sensitivity Analysis of Cloud Microphysical Process on PhD 219 Vivekananda Hazra ORAL Monsoon Depression Do stochastic parameterizationsinfluence the model 220 PhaniMurali Krishna ORAL uncertainties in the AGCM models? Heavy Rainfall Forecasting skill of Global Forecasting System at PhD 221 Ch. Sridevi POSTER District level over India during summer monsoon season Composite structures of ocean parameters in the evolution of 222 Nanda Kishore Reddy POSTER tropical cyclones over the Bay of Bengal Trends and variability of thunderstorm frequency during pre- 223 K. Naga Ratna, IMD warming and warming period over Andhra Pradesh and POSTER Telangana states Observational Analyses of Composite Rainfall Structures of 224 ANKUR KUMAR POSTER Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Ocean COMPOSITE ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS IN 226 Anwesha Haldar POSTER THE C.D. BLOCKS OF THE SUNDARBAN REGION, WEST BENGAL Influence of Natural Climate Variability Extreme Wave Climate 227 Prashant Kumar, NIT POSTER in Indian Ocean Effect of incoming short wave and outgoing long wave 228 N Srinivas Yadav POSTER radiation on air temperature Use of OLR for tracking of Maximum Cloud Zone and the ITCZ 229 Amit Kumar ORAL over Indian region during SW Monsoon Extremely Heavy Rainfall Event over Nagpur during July 2018: 230 Bhawna POSTER A Case Study Sumith S, Bangalore Retrieval of hourly values of air temperature from daily minima 231 POSTER University and maxima Praveen Kumar B, Influence of solar radiation on the atmosphere of earth and 232 POSTER Bangalore University mars – comparative study Delineation and monitoring of the Agricultural Drought using Pradip Patra, Calcatta 233 Remotely Sensed drought indicesin the South Western part of POSTER University the West Bengal 9

Some characteristics of the changing pattern of temperature in 234 SHASHI KANT, IMD POSTER Odisha- A statistical and diagnostic approach

235 Ajay Kumar Cloud Radiation interactions over the Indian region POSTER 236 Kamsali Nagaraja Influence of aerosols on monsoon: a case study over Bengaluru POSTER Uncertainty of high resolution mesoscale model for rainfall 237 Krishna K Osuri prediction associated with tropical cyclones over North Indian ORAL Ocean Comparative Study of UHI over Metro and Non-metro Cities of 239 Nishi Srivastava ORAL India Study of Characteristics of ozone and other greenhouse gases 240 Shwarnima Singh with rain and localized sources in different seasons over ORAL various places ofIndia Surface Urban Heat Island of Upper and Middle Gangetic Plain 241 Archisman Barat POSTER :A Satellite Based Approach Satyendra Kumar Aerosol-Cloud-Interactions over the Indo Gangetic PhD 242 ORAL Pandey Plains:Dominant role of semi-direct effect Some dynamical and thermodynamical aspects and convective 243 S.BALACHANDRAN asymmetries associated with the development of Tropical ORAL Cyclone OCKHI (2017) over the North Indian Ocean 244 Ruchi Singh Vector Borne Disease in Relation to Climate Change POSTER How well do current coupled models capture the Pacific-Japan 246 J. S. Chowdary ORAL pattern teleconnections to Indian summer monsoon rainfall? Characteristics of extreme rainfall events over India during 248 C A Babu ORAL monsoon 2017 Impact of Assimilation of Scatterometer Ocean Surface winds 249 Puja Biswas on the Simulation of Mekunu cyclone formed over the Arabian ORAL Sea Severe Hailstorm of Spring-2018 over Madhya Pradesh – 250 Ved P. Singh Tracking Impact of Western Disturbance using Doppler POSTER Weather RADAR (DWR) Variability and properties of tropospheric aerosol over asemi 251 Aravindhavel . A ORAL urban costal station Chennai Studies on the population dynamics of Epilachna PhD vigintioctopunctata on brinjal ecosystem in relation to the 252 Mainak Bhattacharyya POSTER ecological factors and the appearance of it’s predator Geocoris sp in the New Alluvial zones of West Bengal. Investigation of impact of Climate Change on Monsoon 253 Sanjeev Dwivedi inversion over Arabian Sea using 38 year downscaled ORAL simulations of WRF-ARW model Satellite based investigation of cloud microphysical properties 254 Jinya John POSTER for pre-monsoon thunderstorm events of 2018 Case Study Of A Dust Storm Episode Over North India During 255 Shibin Balakrishnan POSTER May 2018 changes in PATTERNS AND TRENDS OF TEMPERATURE 256 Manu Raj Sharma extremes INDICES over Himachal PradEsh and PuNjab (1951- ORAL 2014) Study on the diurnal variability of NCMRWF model 257 D.Rajan ORAL precipitation 258 Keya Desai INTERFEROMETRIC SAR FLAT EARTH EFFECT REMOVAL POSTER Variations in Accumulated Cyclone Energy over NIO during El 259 Fatema Khan POSTER Nina and La Nina episodes A Coupled Modeling Framework to Simulate Monsoon PhD 260 Himadri Baisya ORAL Depressions

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HINDCAST IMPROVEMENT OF CLIMATE FORECAST SYSTEM 261 Febin Paulose ORAL (CFSV2) BY USING MODIFIED CLOUD SCHEME Study on frequency and intensity of Cyclonic Disturbances in 262 Ashutosh K Sinha POSTER the Bay of Bengal for retrospective assessment Spatial and seasonal variation of rainfall contribution by the 263 P. Roy echo top height spectrum of precipitation systems and ORAL associated cloud bulk properties over the South Asia 265 Sada Shiv Mishra Flood risk assessment using multi-temporal SAR data POSTER A comparative study for predicting tropical cyclone wave field PhD 266 Mourani Sinha using numerical wave models and non-linear autoregressive ORAL neural network model Relationship between wind speed, sea surface temperature PhD 267 Mourani Sinha POSTER and ENSO indices for the Indian Ocean region Spatiotemporal Analysis of a Self-calibrating Palmer Drought 268 Varsha Pandey Severity Index (Sc-PDSI) for Evaluating Agricultural Drought in ORAL Semi Arid region of India Simulation of severe thunderstorms over the Indian monsoon 269 AnshulSisodiya ORAL region Overview of microphysical, chemical and thermodynamical 270 Sachin D. Ghude properties of fog and its forecasting using NWP model: Results ORAL from the WIFEX 2015-18 Thunderstorm accompanied with squalls over northwest India 271 Shobhit Katiyar POSTER on 02 and 14 May, 2018 272 B. Pushpanjali The vagaries and extremities in summer monsoon ORAL Role of Different ENSO Phases on the Regional Rainfall 273 Krishnakumar E.K ORAL Extremes during Indian Summer Monsoon 274 Lavanya S The affect of raindrop size sorting on radar parameters ORAL Distinct Atmosphere-Ocean coupling processes over Tropical PhD Indian Ocean Associated with Onset phase of Indian Summer 275 Athira U. N. ORAL Monsoon and its Progress during 2017 and 2018 using SCATSAT data Microphysics of raindrop size spectra over a coastal station 276 Lavanya S, Kirankumar POSTER Thumba during cyclones “Simulation of Princeton Ocean Model for Northern Indian 277 Surendra Pratap Singh Ocean: A study of Indian Monsoon events with simulated SST ORAL anomalies” Calibration of Ground Radar with Space Radar Using Alignment 278 Alok Sharma POSTER Methodology Role of land surface initialisation in sub-seasonal to seasonal 279 Subhadeep Halder ORAL scale forecasts A study of rainfall pattern near Angul, Odisha region using 280 Parthasarathi Mishra POSTER Eigen Analysis Srinivasa Ramanujam Ordinal pattern dependence between rainfall time series in 281 Kannan, IIT POSTER Tier 1 cities of India Bhubaneswar Estimates of column Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor from a Network of Ground-Based GNSS Receivers over Indian 282 Ramashray Yadav ORAL Subcontinent and Validation with Retrievals of Total Precipitable Water Vapor from INSAT-3DR Sounder. A study of diurnal variation of the electrical and lightning PhD 283 Rupraj Biswasharma properties associated with the convective clouds over the POSTER eastern and north-eastern part of India Role of meteorology in controlling VOCs in megacity Delhi 284 Sujit Maji ORAL during a winter month

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Enhancing the seasonal forecast of Northeast monsoon PhD 285 P. Cuba ORAL foragriculture PERSISTENT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EPISODE OVER MUMBAI 7th 286 NITHA.T.S ORAL -10th July 2018 - A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY Skill of Rainfall simulation of NCUM global weather forecasting SOMOSHREE 288 model during Indian Summer Monsoon 2018: Large Scale POSTER CHATTERJEE Aspects Role of atmospheric Black Carbon Aerosols at a High Altitude 289 R. M. Rajeshkumar ORAL location in Southern India Study and Characterization of Tropical Cyclone Ockhi using 290 Sambit Kumar Panda POSTER Doppler Weather Radar Performance of MODIS collection 6.1 (C6.1) aerosol retrieval 291 Alaa Mhawish, BHU ORAL algorithms over South Asia SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL 292 Chintan Nanda ORAL DURING DIWALI OVER INDIA Prediction of Cyclogenesis over Bay of Bengal with Artificial 293 Ishita Sarkar ORAL Neural Network Model Identification of some predictors for seasonal ACE of Bay of 294 S. Adhikary ORAL Bengal during post-monsoon season. Two Decades of Aerosol Observations in the UTLS region as 296 B.L. Madhavan ORAL observed with a Ground-based Mie Lidar at Gadanki Predictability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Using 297 Alok Kumar Mishra POSTER Ensemble of Regional Climate Model Output The role of synoptic-scale atmospheric features on the 298 A. Kumar ORAL formation of severe hailstorms over India Air Sea fluxes over the North Indian Ocean during three 300 M.R.Ramesh Kumar POSTER consecutive deficient Monsoon years On the Association Betweenthe Western Pacific Convective 301 M.R.Ramesh Kumar Systems, Strength of ElNino/LaNina and the Indian Summer ORAL Monsoon Activity Evaluation of CMIP5 Models for Indian Summer-Monsoon 302 Popat Salunke ORAL Precipitation and Temperature Investigation of optical properties and sources of aerosols in 303 Prayagraj Singh POSTER the subtropical humid region of northern India 2 304 Appa Rao B.V. Study on Cn over Bengaluru using Pisharoty GPS-RS data ORAL Climate Change over Eastern India:Impact of Land Use and 306 Partha Pratim Gogoi ORAL Land Cover Changes Estimating Reference Evapotranspiration with the FAO 307 Prachi Singh Penman-Monteith equation using NASA-POWER modelled data ORAL over agricultural area in Varanasi, India Tropical Cyclone Intensification Analysis Using satellite 308 Neeru Jaiswal ORAL generated Infrared and Water Vapour Imageries MANIKIAM CASE STUDY OF RAINFALL ENHANCEMENT THROUGH CLOUD 309 ORAL BALAKRISHNAN SEEDING Characteristics of near-surface air pollutants at an urban 310 Sunil Kumar POSTER location in the Indo-Gangetic Basin Efficiency of regional climate model REMO in simulating PhD 311 Aditya Kumar Dubey ORAL heatwave over India: A comparison with observations The unprecedented changes in the South Asian Monsoon 312 Amita Kumari ORAL precipitation in the future warming scenario Impact of Forest Fire on Black Carbon Concentration and 316 MANASI GOGOI ORAL Tropospheric NO2 Over North Eastern Region of India Long-term trends of various winter precipitation events over 317 M. M. Nageswararao ORAL Northwest India 12

Jiya Albert, IIT Title-Eddy Detection Technique for in the 318 ORAL Kharagpur Bay of Bengal basin Dr. Anshu Prakash Rainfall Trend over North East Region (NER) of India and its 319 POSTER Mishra Implications on Climate Change and Water Availability Characterization of the 'Aerosol Humidograph Instrument' for 320 Aditya Vaishya POSTER aerosol optical growth studies Vertical structure of optical and radiative effects of aerosols 321 Aditya Vaishya ORAL across the IGP: East - West contrast and seasonality Configuration and Validation of mesoscale model for urban 322 G N Mohapatra ORAL extreme rainfall events for major metro cities in India Strategic framework for integrated flood disaster management 323 Apoorva DL POSTER and modelling over Bangalore city

Rise in atmospheric CO2 level and its probable impacts on 324 P R Naskar, IMD ORAL photosynthesis, hydrology and local climate Some aspects of extreme rainfall event and associated flood 326 Yashvant Das ORAL risk in Gujarat (India) Diatom Bloom Detection in the East coast of India (Bay of 327 P.V. Nagamani POSTER Bengal) using MODIS Fluorescence Data EFFECTS OF SOLAR HIGH ENERGY PROTONSON OZONE LAYER 328 Asheesh Bhargawa POSTER DURING SUPER STORMS 330 MukeshKumar Gupta मौसमी घटनाओं का खगोल-शास्त्र से स륍बꅍध POSTER Studies on Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Indices and Anurag 331 Water Indices for monitoring winter wheat crop over Ghazipur, ORAL Chaurasia U.P ( India) Perturbation in Atmospheric and Ionospheric parameters prior 332 Sanjay Kumar ORAL to Gorkha Nepal Earthquake Study Fog life cycle observed using 20m micrometeorological 333 Narendra G. Dhangar POSTER tower over IGI, Airport New Delhi during WIFEX Characteristics of rainfall over a Western Ghats station during 334 Narkhedkar S. G. ORAL 2015 Monsoon season Analysis of SW monsoon over Central India during recent years 335 Anupam Kashyapi – Case studies with major systems causing heavy to very heavy POSTER rains Impact of extreme weather events in relation to hailstorms 336 Sunita Bhandari POSTER over Maharashtra in recent years Seasonal variation of Tropospheric Aerosols observed using 337 P. Prasad POSTER ground based and space-borne Lidars over south-east India Elucidating Severe Air Pollution Episode of November 2016 in 338 V.P. Kanawade, UGC POSTER New Delhi High resolution Simulation study of Heat wave and Cold Wave PhD 340 S K Sahoo ORAL over Odisha Long-term assessment of air pollutants at Delhi in the Indo- 341 A. K. Srivastava, IITM ORAL Gangetic Basin Trisanu Banik, Trupati Lightning evolution during severe tropical cyclones: Some case 342 POSTER University studies from the Indian sector Present status/challanges of regional weather prediction PhD 343 Prakash Pithani POSTER model to forecast fog during the WIFEX filed campaigns, India Long-term Trend and Variabilities in the North East Monsoon 344 S. Sridharan ORAL Rainfall over India Objective Analysis of Wind Data of Automatic Weather Station 345 M Danish POSTER over Tamilnadu Improvements in Performance due to Configuration Changes in 346 Abhijit Sarkar ORAL NCMRWF Ensemble Prediction System

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Impact of orographic subduction south of Himalayas over the PhD 347 Abhishek Anand POSTER Indian region in NCAR CAM5.1 Spatial variability of monsoon cloud bands during El Nino and 348 S.S. Suneela POSTER negative IOD years AIRS RETRIEVED CO2 OVER INDIAN REGION: CONTRAST 350 S. K. Dhaka ORAL BEHAVIOUR OF LAND AND OCEAN A STUDY OF HIGH INTENSITY RAINFALL EVENTS IN THE 351 Anjali Thomas POSTER NCEPCFSv2 MODEL AND COMPARISON WITH OBSERVATION 352 Sushant Kumar Effects of Climate Change on Wind Power Prospects over India ORAL Impact of Ocean mixed layer depth initialization on simulation 353 K. Vijaya Kumari POSTER of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using WRF-ARW model Ashu Mamgain, Implementation of a Very High Resolution (12 km) Global 354 ORAL NCMRWF Ensemble Prediction System at NCMRWF 355 S Nahak Seasonal Prediction of Extreme Rainfall episodes over India POSTER Characteristic changes in heat stress over India in response to 356 Koteswararo Kundeti ORAL global warming Shallow overturning circulation ofthe Indian Ocean in an 357 Anant Parekh ORAL OGCM: sensitivity to momentum flux and spatial resolution Evaluation of skill of global model rainfall forecasts over River 358 Kuldeep Sharma ORAL Basins of India for hydro-meteorological applications Beneath a Hole in the Monsoon: A tale of the Southern Bay of 359 Umasankar Das, IMD ORAL

Bengal Cold Pool Cloud Resolving Model simulation of Cloud Burst Events over 361 P. K. Pradhan Uttarakhand during southwest monsoon season of 2018: ORAL Sensitive of cloud microphysics 362 Vijay Vishwakarma Simulation of INSAT-3D Imager Brightness Temperature ORAL PhD Harvir Singh, Bias-correction and verification of summer temperature 363 ORAL NCMRWF forecasts over India Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Tropical Indian Ocean Sea 364 Anant Parekh POSTER Surface Temperaturedecadal variability Performance of regional climate model RegCM4 over India to 365 R K S Maurya ORAL simulate summer monsoon season Study of aerosolproperties and PM concentration during a 367 Sarvan Kumar POSTER severe dust storm in Indo-Gangetic Plain UNDERSTANDING SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF THE CHLOROFLUOROCARBON (CFC11, CFC12) OVER THE INDIAN 368 Amita Singh ORAL OCEAN USING HIGH RESOLUTION COUPLED OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELLING CFSv2 model fidelity in capturing atmospheric internal 369 Sahadat Sarkar processes during organization and intensification of Boreal ORAL Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO). IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE AGRICULTURAL 370 Neelam Shukla PRODUCTION OVER THE ALLAHABAD REGION OF INDO- ORAL GANGETIC PLAIN Shashank Kumar Evaluation of scatterometer derived winds with altimeter 371 POSTER Mishra derived winds A HISTORICAL STUDY OF DECREASEING TREND IN CONVECTIVE 372 Arunachalam M. S. PARAMETERS DURING TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER BAY OF ORAL BENGAL Climatological Characteristics of Tropical Cyclonic Systems 373 B.Sai Praneeth ORAL forming near to East Coast of India during North-East Monsoon Verification of Thunderstorm events over North-East India 374 S. Karuna Sagar ORAL using High resolution Unified model

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Numerical Simulation of the Intensity Prediction of Tropical 375 Sushil Kumar ORAL Cyclone Megh using WRF-3DVARModeling System Comparisons of reanalysis dataset for simulation of tropical 376 Pampi Malakar POSTER cyclones evolutions over North Indian Oceans Simulation of extreme climatic features over India using nested 377 P.V.S. Raju ORAL Non-hydrostatic Regional Climate Model Role of meso network of observations in real time analysis and 379 S Rambabu ORAL nowcasting during Very severe Cyclonic storm VARDAH NUMERICAL MODELING OF COMBINED WAVE-CURRENT-TIDE- 380 Parvathy K. G ORAL SURGE-MANGROVE INTERACTION DURING AILA CYCLONE Verification of Medium Range Probabilistic Rainfall Forecasts 381 Sahil Sharma ORAL over India 382 Jasmine Takle Analysis of Summer Monsoon rainfall over Maharashtra POSTER UPPER WIND VARIABILITY OVER SHAR REGION WITH SPECIAL 383 C.Deepak POSTER EMPHASIS ON TROPICAL EASTERLY JET DURING 1980 TO 2017. Prediction Techniques satisfying initial conditions for Thunder 384 SHRI L. K. GIRI cloud development over Eastern India during Pre-monsoon ORAL period. 385 C. G. Deshpande New avenue forairborne atmospheric research in India ORAL Analysis of Forecast Upper Winds at Sriharikota Island during 386 Papa Rao G ORAL the launch Clearance Heat wave scenarios and verification over Andhra Pradesh 387 C. Hari Kiran ORAL State Identification and classification of Mesoscale Convective 388 Vidya B. Patil Systems based on Image processing and Data Mining ORAL Techniques: A Survey Numerical Simulation of the Indian Summer Monsoon Seasons 389 Roshmitha Panda ORAL for Two Contrasting Years using Regional Climate Models Monthly long range forecast of Indian summer monsoon 390 S.B. Kakade ORAL rainfall Multi-pathway assessment of human health risk posed by gas 391 Puneet Kumar Verma and particulate phase Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ORAL (PAHs) and Nitro-PAHs at a traffic dominated site in Agra, India Influence of Boreal Sudden Stratospheric Warming On 392 R. Remya ORAL Northern Hemispheric Tropical Troposphere 393 S. Pattnaik Simulation and Validation of Heavy Rainfall Event ORAL Study of Monsoon Circulations and its Impact on Monsoon 395 Anu Xavier POSTER Rainfall: Using 205 MHz ST Radar and Radiosonde Datasets Advancement in the Algorithm of Physical Initialization of 396 Bappaditya Nag POSTER Numerical Models Analysis of Tropical Cyclone over North Indian Ocean during PhD 397 Meenakshi Shenoy POSTER 1987-2016 Synoptic Analysis of Very Heavy to Extremely Heavy Rainfall 398 Debapriya Roy Events Over Sikkim and Sub-Himalayan West-Bengal During ORAL South-West Monsoon 2017 Role of land surface processes in simulation of Indian Summer PhD 399 Sonu Kumar POSTER monsoon with Regional Climate Model. Numerical simulation of Tropical cyclone “Ockhi” and 400 S. MadhuSai comparative evaluation of the Symmetric vs Asymmetric POSTER features Assessment of 3DVAR Data Assimilation in Simulation of a PhD 401 Shilpi Kalra ORAL Heavy Rainfall Event Associated with Monsoon Depression

Study of PM2.5 concentrations in Delhi NCR and its validation 402 Arpit Tiwari POSTER using satellite products

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Recent heat conditions over Indian region during summer 403 A. Tripathi, POSTER months Distribution of different aerodynamic size particle in winter 404 Ravi Ranjan Kumar ORAL season Spatio-temporal variability of columnar water isotope ratios 405 Nimisha Singh ORAL using SCIAMACHY data Study of Total Columnar Ozone over India using Aura Satellite 406 Siddhartha Singh ORAL Data during 1998 – 2018 Impact of cloud microphysics parameterization scheme on the 407 Mukesh Kumar ORAL prediction of heavy rainfall event

Characterization of PM2.5 constituents during Winter Fog 408 Prodip Acharja ORAL Experiment at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi Salinity variability in the Bay of Bengal during Indian Ocean 409 Anoopa Prasad C POSTER Dipole and El Niño/La Niña REGIONAL SCALE STUDY OF COMFORT /DISCOMFORT INDICES S. 410 OVER SIX MAJOR CITIESOF TAMIL NADU, INDIA HAVING POSTER Kazhugasalamoorthy DISTINCT GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. The 10-20 day intraseasonal variation of the South Asian 411 Sujata K. Mandke summer monsoon simulated by GFDL models in the AMIP ORAL experiment of CMIP5 Indian Ocean SST and Indian monsoon rainfall: Relationship PhD 412 Sanjukta Rani Padhi ORAL and variability during IOD years Performance of numerical weather prediction models in 413 Shibin Balakrishnan prediction of dust storm and thunderstorm over northwest POSTER India during May 2018 Analysis and forecasting of high impact weather (Flood) in 414 G K DAS ORAL eastern India during monsoon season 415 Chaithra Dynamics and Trends of Warm Days over India POSTER Seasonal prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in 416 D A Ramu ORAL monsoon mission CFSv2 and NMME models Validation of INSAT 3D derived land surface temperature 417 Chinmay Khadke POSTER product Validation of Geostationary Satellite derived rainfall estimation 418 Chinmay Khadke ORAL products with the station rain-gauge data Understanding the thermodynamic variability in relation to 419 Bhishma Tyagi pre-monsoon thunderstorms over a tropical coastal station POSTER Bhubaneswar Dineshkumar K. Retrieval and application of high resolution low-level visible 420 POSTER Sankhala winds from INSAT-3DR Imager 421 Nagaraj Bhat Assessment of Signature of Climate Change over Bengaluru POSTER PhD Theme :Weather & Climate Modeling at Regional and Global 422 Arpita Munsi Scales Impact of assimilation of satellite winds in simulating POSTER tropical cycloneOckhi features Upper Ocean Dynamics in the wake of intense cyclones in Bay 423 K.N. Navaneeth POSTER of Bengal Lightning observation and relation with vertical temperature 424 Tarakesh Lakshman B POSTER profiles over Andhra Pradesh during – 2017 & 2018 Unprecedented thunderstorm/ squall activities over north 425 Atul Kumar Singh eastern India during Premonsoon season 2018: A synoptic cum POSTER diagnostic study Observed Multidecadal see-saw of ENSO-Monsoon 426 Gaurav Srivastava ORAL relationship over India and West Africa Seasonal Variation of Raindrop Size Distribution over the 427 Sushanta Kundu POSTER Wettest Place on Earth, Cherrapunjee

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Determining the Temperature extremes from 1975 to 2005 PhD 428 P. Chaitanya POSTER over Jaipur, Rajasthan Very Severe Cyclonic Storm OCKHI over Bay of Bengal, 29 429 Akhil Srivastava POSTER November–05 December 2017: A case Study The ENSO and Indian monsoon climate variability during warm 430 Charan Teja Tejavath ORAL climates in CMIP5/PMIP3 simulations. Identification ofdroughthotspotsover the Eastern Gangetic 431 Sunny kumar POSTER Plain using high resolution data Significance of Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential in Tropical PhD 432 Babita Jangir POSTER Cyclogenesis in the North Indian Ocean Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Trends in Aerosol Optical PhD 433 Nisha Vaghmaria ORAL Properties over an Industrial State - Gujarat High-resolution numerical weather prediction model approach 435 Om Prakash Prajapati to analyse a land depression during 2017 Indian Summer POSTER Monsoon season Study of thermodynamic indices and parameters in association 436 S.I. Laskar with pre-monsoon thunderstorms/ Nor’westers over North ORAL East India during 2014-2018 A pilot study on the energetics aspects of the Very Severe 438 Somenath Dutta ORAL Cyclonic Storm OCKHI over north Indian Ocean in 2017. Variability of cyclogenesis over Bay of Bengal striking eastern 439 Prajna Priyadarshini POSTER coastal states of India Prediction of Heavy Rainfall Events by NCMRWF Ensemble 440 Paromita Chakraborty POSTER Prediction Systems Nature and sources of ionic species in rain water at an urban 441 Ankush ORAL site, New Delhi over the Indo-Gangetic Basin Diurnal cycle of convection and precipitation over the Indian 442 Nirmala J Nair POSTER region Analysing the variability in rainfall contributed by cyclonic PhD 443 Jagabandhu Panda POSTER disturbances and its inputtoclimatological rain totals over India Diagnostic study of Western Disturbances that caused extreme 445 Naresh Kumar ORAL precipitation over Indian Himalayas: 1985-2016 446 H. P. Nayak Characteristic of diurnal rainfall pattern over India POSTER The Precipitation chemistry Study in Srinagar, a lower 447 Abhimanyu ORAL Himalayan region Inter comparison of rate of ionization obtained from Radon 448 Jeni Victor N and NAIS measurements during New Particle Formation (NPF) POSTER events at Pune, India 449 Thara Mathew THERMODYNAMICS OF MONSOON ONSET POSTER High Resolution Climate ModelingProducts for the U.S.-India 450 Dr. Andrew Ballinger ORAL Partnership for Climate Resilience Workshops Impact of assimilation of satellite winds in simulating tropical 451 Arpita Munsi POSTER cycloneOckhi features Climatology and distribution of Cirrus and Sub Visible Cirrus 452 Sivan C POSTER Clouds over Indian Summer Monsoon Region Do boundary layer pollutants reach UTLS during Indian 453 M. Venkat Ratnam ORAL Summer Monsoon over Indian region? Multidecadal variability and trend in extremes precipitation 454 Pradeep Kumar Rai POSTER over India Validation of Sea Surface Temperature from Different Global 455 Kalyani. M Reanalysis Products in Indian Waters UsingIn-Situ OMNI Buoy POSTER Observations 457 Deen Mani Lal Surface wind and Lightning association over Himalayan regions ORAL

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Punya Murthy 460 Temperature trend analysis of Bhubaneswar City, India POSTER Khristodas Uniqueness of Indian Storm Season 2018(Thunderstorm and Dust Strom) in Scale, movement, Severity, Damages and 461 R K Jenamani POSTER Sectorial impact, their Meso-Characteristics and Progress in Early Warning Systems Major Episodic Smog and fog Events of New Delhi in 1981- 2018, their Scaling, Severity, Linking them to Local and distant 462 R K Jenamani ORAL Sources, Meteorological Factors and Impact of its Trends on Urban Climate Capturing Role of Meso-Scale and Large-scale Met Features on Dense/no dense Fog spells/days for WIFEX 2015-18: Why Fog 463 R K Jenamani POSTER forecast Systems of Met Office Palam have Success and Failure on some Evenings? Spatial and Temporal variations in Convective Available 464 Murali krishna POSTER Potential Energy (CAPE) from INSAT-3D measurements Monsoon Active/Break analysis over Indian region: An 465 Shreya.trivedi POSTER assessment using CMIP5 climate models Effect of deep convective events on the thermal structure of 466 M. Muhsin the troposphere and lower stratosphere including the tropical POSTER tropopause layer (TTL) 467 Krishna Mishra, IMD Heavy Rainfall Warning Over India: Issues & Challenges POSTER Effect of deep convective events on the thermal structure of Surendra Pratap 468 the troposphere and lower stratosphere including the tropical POSTER Singh, tropopause layer (TTL) Ground Based and Space Borne Observations of Lightning over 469 M Mahakur ORAL Maharashtra Analysis of long term climatic trends in rainfall events over 470 Mamta Yadav POSTER Madhya Pradesh in twentieth century (1871-2016). Do aerosols suppress the Gross and Primary Production over 471 Prasanth.S POSTER the north-eastern region India: a decadal study (2001-2010) Trends in extreme rainfall eventsover MadhayaPradesh : 472 Brijesh Kr. Kanaujiya POSTER Intensity and duration wise study Machine learning to evaluate impact of weather variability on 473 Aditi Chandra POSTER rainfed upland kharif rice yields of West Bengal Studies on characteristics of monsoon clouds measured using 474 S.Veerabuthiran compact lidar at a tropical coastal station, Kochi (9.9° N, 76.2° ORAL E) Weather and Climate Services for the Farmers of East 475 Shiv Mangal Singh POSTER Vindhyan Agro-climatic zone of Uttar Pradesh Rohit Kumar PhD 476 Changing pattern of Heat-stress in India at District level POSTER Choudhary THE TRACE ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH AMBIENT 477 VIGNESH PRABHU RESPIRABLE PARTICULATE MATTER AND RELATED CANCER POSTER RISK: A CASE STUDY OF DEHRADUN CITY, INDIA 478 SHREYA DUBEY Seasonal Variation Of PM2.5 and Associated Organic Aerosols ORAL A PILOT STUDY ON MOUNTAIN WAVES OVER KHASI JAYANTIA 479 Shivinder Singh POSTER HILLS Salient features before and after onset of Monsoon: NCMRWF 480 Shivendra Ojha ORAL model diagnostics study Interannual Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall as 481 Kailas Sonawane POSTER Simulated by JMA EPS model 482 Ghouse Basha Investigation of huan influences on Heat waves over India ORAL Assessment of Paleoclimatic changes in lower Baitarini Basin, 483 Uzma Praveen ORAL Odisha, East coast of India 18

Dynamical Downscaling of extended range forecasts for 485 Manpreet Kaur ORAL extreme events prediction Impact of weather variability on the power demand scheduling and renewable energy generation forecast and solutions to 486 Mukul Pateriya ORAL maintain grid security and grid balance in the multifaceted country like India Validation of WAVEWATCH III Model Results in Northern 487 Andrea Linus Pereira ORAL Arabian Sea Summer monsoon rainfall distribution over the Indian 488 Shruti Verma POSTER homogeneous region using RegCM-4.3 REGIONAL SCALE STUDY OF COMFORT / DISCOMFORT INDICES S. 489 OVER SIX MAJOR CITIESOF TAMIL NADU, INDIA HAVING POSTER Kazhugasalamoorthy DISTINCT GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. Effects of different sowing dates on the phenology and 490 Ganesh Prasad1 accumulated heat units in two wheat (Triticum Aestivum) POSTER varieties Spatiotemporal Indian summer monsoon variability and 491 Soumik Ghosh NNRP1 downscaled Regional Climate Model sensitivity during POSTER ENSO and normal conditions Study of cold and severe cold wave events over the Indo- 492 Manas Pant POSTER Gangetic Plain (IGP) during 1951-2013 Long term satellite based study on aerosol and trace gases 493 Jhuma Biswas ORAL over the capital city of Assam, Guwahati Namendra Kumar Changing relationship of Southern Oscillation with Indian 494 POSTER Shahi summer monsoon rainfall Satyendra Kumar Impact of Assimilation of Microwave radiances on the 495 POSTER Verma simulation of cyclone Mekunu Investigating the Effect of ENSO Events on the Malaria 496 Shweta Chaturvedi POSTER Transmission over India Estimating the Role of Mixed Layer Eddies in the Tropical 497 Lokesh Kumar Pandey ORAL Indian Ocean using High Resolution Ocean Model Effect of Local Wind Forcing on the Bay of Bengal Coastal 498 Mihir Kumar Dash Kelvin Wave and Indian Summer monsoon deficit in June 2009 ORAL and 2012 Summer monsoon rainfall distribution over the Indian 499 Shruti Verma REPEAT homogeneous region using RegCM-4.3 WRF-Chem model simulation during typical dust storm event 500 Swagata Payra ORAL over North West India “Heavy Precipitation over Himachal Pradesh during August 502 Manmohan Singh ORAL 2018” Sustained Global Climate Observation System Upper Air 503 M. I. ANSARI POSTER Network (GUAN) of IMD Modeling to Assess Possible Impacts on Environment due to 504 Babita Dani Tsunamigenic Sources (Makran subduction zone) along Gujarat POSTER Coast of India Machine Learning Internet Of Things Applications In 506 SUNJAY POSTER Meteorology Severe weather over major parts of Northwest India on 507 C. S. Tomar POSTER 23rdMay 2016 - A case study Priya Patil/ Shailedra Role of Indian and Pacific Ocean in subsurface variability in 508 POSTER Rai Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) Near-surface observations of high resolution turbulent latent 509 K. Vijay Kumar and sensible heat fluxes and momentum from research ship ORAL during the Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE)

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510 K C Gouda Modelling Vector Borne Disease over India ORAL Long Term Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Heat Waves and Severe 511 Saumya Singh POSTER Heat Waves Over India Climate and Air Pollution impact on wheat crop over Indo 512 Geetika Sonkar POSTER Gangetic Plains of India Effects of diurnal temperature variability and extreme 513 Nidhi Singh temperature on mortality- a time series study from Varanasi, ORAL India Pawan Kumar Assessment of Climate change for Water Resources over the 514 POSTER Chaubey Varuna River, Varanasi, India District-wise Assessment ofVulnerability and Risksdue to 515 Rabindra K Panigrahy ORAL Climate Change for the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) Application of DSSAT model to study the impact of climate 516 Shoobhangi Tyagi change on evapotranspiration in sub humid climate region of POSTER Eastern Uttar Pradesh The unprecedented changes in South Asian Monsoon POSTER PhD 517 Amita Kumari precipitation in the future warming scenario

High-resolution numerical weather prediction model POSTER PhD approach to analyse a land depression during 2017 Indian 518 Ankita Maurya Summer Monsoon season.

Seasonal Prediction of Extreme Rainfall episodes over POSTER PhD 519 Shaktidhar Nahak India

The Analysis of monthly and seasonal variation of POSTER 520 minimum and maximum temperature Over India and Its Srishti Mishra Homogenous Regions

Verification of value added medium range weather POSTER forecast with inter-comparison of Vidarbha and 521 SHIRISH KHEDIKAR Marathwada regions of Maharashtra state during Indian summer monsoon

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