Publications
A collection of our peer-reviewed research in leading atmospheric and climate science journals.
89 Papers
Understanding atmospheric dynamics of the 2024 Arabian Gulf flood: Can extreme rainfall be predicted weeks ahead?
Luong, T.M., Dasari, H.P., Attada, R., Zampieri, M. & Hoteit, I.
Natural Hazards 2026
Assessing the Changes in Indian Summer Monsoon in Warm Climates: Mid-Pliocene and Future Projection by the End of 21st Century
Dahiya, K., N. Chilukoti, and R. Attada
International Journal of Climatology 2026
Dynamics of the Oceans - Variability, Hydrological Cycles, and Sea Level Change
Zhang, X., & Attada, R. (Eds).
Earth Sciences, IntechOpen Series 2026
Global warming enhances tropical cyclone–induced extreme precipitation in the Arabian Sea: Insights from convection-permitting model experiments
Pathaikara, A., Lee, M., Min, S. K., Cha, D. H., Park, D. S. R., An, S. I., Roxy, M.K. and Attada, R.
Earth’s Future 2026
Interaction of the Monsoon Trough and Western Disturbance Ignites Multiday Extreme Rainfall Event in July 2023 over North India
Rohtash Saini, Raju Attada, Kieran M R Hunt, Sreehari Kizhuveettil, and Deepak Pandidurai
Monthly Weather Review 2025
Analyzing and predicting ventilation coefficient over India using long-term reanalysis datasets and hybrid machine learning approach
Govande, A., Attada, R., Shukla, K.K. et al
Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2025
Sudden stratospheric warming linked to extreme cold weather in North India: Physical processes and impacts
Athira, K. S., Attada, R., Barlow, M., & Brahmananda Rao, V.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2025
Inter-annual variability of the Indian summer monsoon: A comparative study of the mid-Pliocene and pre-industrial eras
Dahiya, K., Chilukoti, N., & Attada, R.
Climate Dynamics 2025
Rainfall climatology and predictability over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at subseasonal scale
Luong, T.M., Dasari, H.P., Attada, R., Chang, H.-I. et al.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2025
Declining summer circulation over the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
Gandham, H., Dasari, H.P., Luong, T.M., Attada, R. et al.
npj Clim Atmos Sci 2025
Harnessing land-atmosphere interactions to enhance subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability
He, C., Zhang, L. N.,...... Raju Attada...et.al.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2025
Indian summer monsoon precipitation and extremes over the Indian Himalayas in WRF dynamically downscaled (HARv2) reanalysis
Saini, R., Attada, R.
Climate Dynamics 2025
Widespread monsoon extreme rainfall events over the central Indian region: Influence of dynamics and thermodynamics
Pandidurai, D., Attada, R., Chakraborty, R., Kumari, A. and Kumar, P.
Climate Dynamics 2025
New climate change center of Saudi Arabia: Advancing understanding and prediction for the Arabian Peninsula climate
Hoteit, I., Abualnaja, Y., Afzal, S., Aman, C., Antony, C., Ashok, K., Mazen Ibrahim Asiri, Raju Attada et al.
Earth's Future 2025
Assessing the performance of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reanalysis: a comprehensive analysis of aerosol optical depth over India
Shukla, K.K., Attada, R., Kunchala, R.K. et al.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2025
Recent decades witness a strong east-west gradient of monsoon precipitation changes over Northern India
Kumari, A., Attada, R., Chowdary, J.S., Mahendra, N., Chilukoti, N. and Karumuri, R.K.
Atmospheric Research 2025
Multi-Physics Ensemble Framework for Representing Western Himalayan Precipitation Climatology and Extremes: An Assessment from WRF Model
Nischal, S., & R. Attada
Wea. Forecasting 2025
Surface air temperature variability over India in CMIP6 models during spring and early summer: after effect of El Niño
Velivelli, S., Satyanarayana, G.C., Chowdary, J.S., Srinivas G., Patekar D., Konda G., Attada, R., Parekh, A. & Gnanaseelan, C.
Climate Dynamics 2025
Strengthening of Indian Ocean Dipole-Rainfall Relationship in Sri Lanka After the 1980s
Kajakokulan, P., Jayawardena, S. & R. Attada
Earth Syst Environ 2025
High-Resolution Analysis of Severe Heat Wave Dynamics and Thermal Discomfort Across India
Lakshman, K., Nadimpalli, R., Srivastava, A., Osuri, K.K., Attada, R. and Parekh, A.
Int J Climatol 2025
Predicting PM2.5 levels over Indian metropolitan cities using Recurrent Neural Networks
Govande, A., Attada, R. & Shukla, K.K.
Earth Sci Inform 2025
Deciphering the characteristics and drivers of the summer monsoon precipitation extremes over the Indian Himalayas
Saini, R., & Attada, R.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2024
Underlying physical mechanisms of winter precipitation extremes over India’s high mountain region
Nischal., Attada, R., Hunt, K.M.R. & Barlow, M.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2024
Synoptic dynamics of cold waves over north India: Underlying mechanisms of distinct cold wave conditions
Athira, K.S., Attada, R. and Rao, V.B.
Weather and Climate Extremes 2024
Investigation of dust‐induced direct radiative forcing over the Arabian Peninsula based on high-resolution WRF‐Chem simulations
Karumuri, R. K., Dasari, H. P., Gandham, H., Kunchala, R. K., Attada, R., Ashok, K., & Hoteit, I.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2024
Climatology, trends, and future projections of aerosol optical depth over the Middle East and North Africa region in CMIP6 models
Kunchala RK, Attada, R., Karumuri RK, Seelanki V, Singh BB, Ashok K and Hoteit I
Front. Clim. 2024
Exploring the factors responsible for aerosol asymmetric trends over indo-gangetic plain using remote sensing observations
Shukla, K.K., Attada, R., Sarangi, C., Kunchala, R.K., Devulapalli, V.P.
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2024
Long-term variability of the low level clouds across Indo-Gangetic Plain
Shukla, K.K., Kumar, G., Tomar, C.S., Attada, R., Niranjan Kumar, K., Mishra, A.K.
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 2024
Contrasting influence of the 1997 and 2015 El Niño on the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of the Southern Hemisphere
Mahendra, N., Chilukoti, N., Chowdary, J. S., Attada, R., Kunchala, R. K., & Bhaskaran, P. K.
Global and Planetary Change 2024
Aerosol Climatology, Variability, and Trends over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in CMIP6 Models
Shukla, K.K., Kunchala R.K., Attada, R., Karumuri, R.K., Kondapalli, N.K., Seelanki, V., Singh. B.B.
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 2024
Impacts of two types of El Niño events on Spring Surface Air Temperature over Sri Lanka
Pathmarasa K., Attada, R., Dzung Nguyen-Le, Jasti S. Chowdary
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 2024
Climatology, trends, and variability of planetary boundary layer height over India using high-resolution Indian reanalysis
Shukla, K.K., Attada, R., Pathaikara, A.
Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2024
Evaluating the climatic state of Indian Summer Monsoon during the mid-Pliocene period using CMIP6 model simulations
Karishma D, N Chilukoti, Attada, R.
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 2024
Characterization of a Regional Dust Storm Using RAMAN Lidar Over the Western Indian Region
Shukla, K. K., Sharma, S. K., Kumar, K. N., Kumar, P., Kamat, D. K., Attada, R., & Saha, S.
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2023
Investigating bi-decadal precipitation changes over the Northwest Himalayas during the pre-monsoon: role of Pacific decadal oscillations
Aggarwal, D., Chakraborty, R. & Attada, R.
Climate Dynamics 2023
Possible factors for the recent changes in frequency of central Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation extremes during 2005–2020
Bajrang, C., Attada, R. & Goswami, B.N.
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 2023
Regional and temporal variability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in relation to El Niño southern oscillation
Athira, K. S., Roxy, M. K., Dasgupta, P., Saranya, J. S., Singh, V. K., & Attada, R.
Scientific Reports 2023
CMIP6 models informed summer human thermal discomfort conditions in Indian regional hotspot
Shukla, K. K., & Attada, R.
Scientific Reports 2023
Analysis of Himalayan summer monsoon rainfall characteristics using Indian High-Resolution Regional Reanalysis
Rohtash, & Attada, R.
International Journal of Climatology 2023
Delving into Recent Changes in Precipitation Patterns over the Western Himalayas in a Global Warming Era
Saini, R., Sharma, N., & Attada, R.
Global Warming-A Concerning Component of Climate Change. IntechOpen. 2023
Climate Library : A Python Library for Climate Indices
Singh, S.S., Nanda, A & Raju Attada
climate-library (v1.0.0) 2023
Dust storm induced severe cooling in the northern Arabian Sea during winter 2022
Nukapothula, S., Yunus, A. P., Chen, C., Attada, R., & Narayana, A. C.
Deep Sea Research Part I 2023
Hydrological Extremes in Western Himalayas-Trends and Their Physical Factors
Nischal, Rohtash, Sreehari, K., Akash, P., Pravin, P., Attada, R.
Natural Hazards - New Insights 2023
Diagnostic evaluation of extreme winter rainfall events over the Arabian Peninsula using high-resolution weather research and forecasting simulations
Attada, R., Dasari, H. P., Ghostine, R. et al.
Meteorological Applications 2022
Evaluation of Potential Predictability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in ECMWF's Fifth-Generation Seasonal Forecast System (SEAS5)
Attada, R., Ehsan, M.A. & Pillai, P.A.
Pure Appl. Geophys. 2022
Evaluating winter precipitation over the western Himalayas in a high-resolution Indian regional reanalysis using multi-source climate datasets
Nischal., Attada, R., and Hunt, K. M. R.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2022
Vertical Changes in the Storm Tracks and Dynamics of Western Disturbances.
Rao, V. B., Pinheiro, H., Attada, R., Bhargavi, V. L., Ramakrishna, S. S. V. S., Govardhan, D., ... & KJ, Ramesh.
VayuMandal 2022
Numerical Simulation of Winter Precipitation over the Western Himalayas Using a Weather Research and Forecasting Model during 2001–2016
Punde P, Nischal, Attada R, Aggarwal D, Radhakrishnan C.
Climate 2022
Evaluation of extreme dust storm over the northwest Indo-Gangetic plain using WRF-Chem model
Shukla, K.K., Attada, R., Khan, A.W. et al
Natural Hazards 2022
Comprehensive analysis of thermal stress over northwest India: Climatology, trends and extremes
K.K. Shukla, Attada, R., Abhishek Kumar, Kunchala, R. K., Sanikommu Sivareddy
Urban Climate 2022
Retrospective sub-seasonal forecasts of extreme precipitation events in the Arabian Peninsula using convective-permitting modeling
Risanto, C. B., Chang, H. I., Luong, T. M., Dasari, H. P., Attada, R., Castro, C. L., & Hoteit, I.
Climate Dynamics 2022
Enhanced Simulation of the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Using Regional Climate Modeling and Continuous Data Assimilation
Desamsetti, S., H. P. Dasari... R. Attada ...
Frontiers in Climate 2022
Understanding the spatiotemporal variability and trends of surface ozone over India
Kunchala, R. K., Singh, B. B., Karumuri, R. K., Attada, R., Seelanki, V., & Kumar, K. N.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2022
How reliable are Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 models in representing the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone?
Singh, B. B., Kondapalli, N. K., Seelanki, V., Karumuri, R. K., Attada, R., & Kunchala, R. K.
International Journal of Climatology 2022
Spatio-temporal variability of XCO2 over Indian region inferred from Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) satellite and Chemistry Transport Model
Kunchala, R. K., Patra, P. K., Kumar, K. N., Chandra, N., Attada, R., & Karumuri, R. K.
Atmospheric Research 2022
Monsoon precipitation characteristics and extreme precipitation events over Northwest India using Indian high resolution regional reanalysis
Aggarwal, D., Attada, R., Shukla, K. K., Chakraborty, R., & Kunchala, R. K.
Atmospheric Research 2022
Meridional displacement of the Asian jet and its impact on Indian summer monsoon rainfall in observations and CFSv2 hindcast
Chowdary, J. S., Vibhute, A. S., Darshana, P., Parekh, A., Gnanaseelan, C., & Attada, R.
Climate Dynamics 2022
Characteristic dissimilarities during high aerosol loading days between western and eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain
Shukla, K. K., Sarangi, C., Attada, R., & Kumar, P.
Atmospheric Environment 2022
Long-term changes in the Arabian Peninsula rainfall and their relationship with the ENSO signals in the tropical Indo-Pacific
Dasari, H. P., Desamsetti, S., Langodan, S., Attada, R., Ashok, K., & Hoteit, I.
Climate Dynamics 2022
Representation of Arabian Peninsula Summer Climate in a Regional Atmospheric Model using Spectral Nudging
Attada, R., Kunchala, R. K., Dasari, H. P., Sivareddy, S., Yesubabu, V., Knio, O., & Hoteit, I.
Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2021
Cloud resolving simulation of extremely heavy rainfall event over Kerala in August 2018 – Sensitivity to microphysics and aerosol feedback
Biyo Thomas, Yesubabu Viswanadhapalli, C.V. Srinivas, Hari Prasad Dasari, Attada, R., Sabique Langodan
Atmospheric Research 2021
Modeling and Monitoring Weather and Climate Characteristics of the Red Sea Region
Hoteit, I., ..Attada,R...and Coauthors
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 2021
Seasonal simulations of summer aerosol optical depth over the Arabian Peninsula using WRF-Chem: Validation, climatology, and variability
Karumuri, R. K., Kunchala, R. K., Attada, R., Dasari, H. P., & Hoteit, I.
International Journal of Climatology 2021
On the understanding of surface ozone variability, its precursors and their associations with atmospheric conditions over the Delhi region
Anshika, Kunchala, R. K., Attada, R., Vellore, R. K., Soni, V. K., Mohan, M., & Chilukoti, N.
Atmospheric Research 2021
Micro-Pulse Lidar observations of elevated aerosol layers over the Himalayan region
Shukla, K. K., Phanikumar, D. V., Kumar, K. N., Kumar, A., Naja, M., Sharma, S., & Attada, R.
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2021
Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea
Hoteit, I ...Attada,R., ...et.al
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2021
Evaluating Cumulus Parameterization Schemes for the Simulation of Arabian Peninsula Winter Rainfall
Attada, R., Hari Prasad Dasari, Ravi Kumar Kunchala, Sabique Langodan, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli, Omar Knio, and Ibrahim Hoteit
J. Hydrometeor. 2020
On the Recent Amplification of Dust over the Arabian Peninsula during 2002-2012
Kunchala, R.K., Attada, R., Hari Prasad Dasari, Ramesh K. Vellore, Yasser O. Abualnaja, Ashok Karumuri, and Ibrahim Hoteit
Journal of Geophys. Res. Atmos. 2019
High-resolution assessment of solar energy resources over the Arabian Peninsula
Dasari, H. P., Desamsetti, S., Langodan, S., Attada, R., Kunchala, R. K., Viswanadhapalli, Y., Kino, O. & Hoteit, I.
Applied Energy 2019
Evaluation of Upper Tropospheric Humidity in WRF Model during Indian Summer Monsoon
Attada, R., Prashant Kumar, Anant Parekh, Ravi Kumar K, C. Nagaraju, J. S. Chowdary and Nagarjuna D
Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 2019
The Role of the Indian Summer Monsoon Variability on Arabian Peninsula Summer Climate
Raju Attada, Hari Prasad Dasari, Anant Parekh et al.
Climate Dynamics 2018
Prominent mode of summer surface air temperature variability and associated circulation anomalies over the Arabian Peninsula
Attada, R., Yadav, R. K., Kunchala, R. K., Dasari, H. P., Knio, O., & Hoteit, I.
Atmospheric Science Letters 2018
Surface Air Temperature Variability over the Arabian Peninsula and its Links to Circulation Patterns
Raju Attada, Hari Prasad Dasari, J. S. Chowdary, Ramesh Kumar Yadav, Omar Knio and Ibrahim Hoteit
International Journal of Climatology 2018
Aerosol Optical Depth Variability over the Arabian Peninsula as inferred from Satellite Measurements
K. Ravi Kumar, Raju Attada, Hari Prasad Dasari, Ramesh K. Vellore, Sabique Langodan, Yasser O. Abualnaja and Ibrahim Hoteit
Atmospheric Environment 2018
Reanalysis of the Indian Summer Monsoon: Four-dimensional data assimilation of AIRS retrievals in a regional data assimilation and modeling framework
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh, J. S. Chowdary and C.Gnanaseelan
Climate Dynamics 2018
Tropospheric biennial oscillation of South Asian summer monsoon rainfall in a coupled model
Gopinadh Konda, J. S. Chowdary, G. Srinivas, C. Gnanaseelan, Anant Parekh, and Raju Attada
Journal of Earth System Sciences 2018
Impact of satellite data assimilation on predictability of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in regional model
Anant Parekh, Raju Attada, J. S. Chowdary and C.Gnanaseelan
Remote sensing Letters 2017
Analysis of a Severe Weather Event over Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Observations and High-Resolution Model
Hari Prasad D, Raju Attada, Omar Knio and Ibrahim Hoteit
Meteorological Applications 2017
Predictability of Indian summer monsoon sub-seasonal low-level circulation and its association with rainfall in a coupled model
Archana P Sagalgile, J. S. Chowdary, G. Srinivas, C. Gnanaseelan, Anant Parekh and Raju Attada
Pure and Applied Geophysics 2017
Significance of High Resolution GHRSST on prediction of Indian Summer Monsoon
Buddhi Prakash Jangid, Prashant Kumar, Raju Attada, Raj Kumar
Advances in Space Research 2017
Representation of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Regional Climate Model: Sensitivity to Convective Physics
U. Umakanth, Amit Kesarkar, Raju Attada and S. Vijaya Bhaskar Rao
Climate Dynamics 2016
Evaluation of the impact of AIRS profiles on prediction of Indian summer monsoon using WRF variational data assimilation system
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh, Prashant Kumar and C. Gnanaseelan
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2015
Estimation of improvement in Indian summer monsoon circulation by assimilation of temperature profiles in WRF model
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh, P. Sreenivas, J. S. Chowdary and C. Gnanaseelan
IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2015
Improving Indian Summer Monsoon Prediction
Attada, R., Anant Parekh, Prashant Kumar and C. Gnanaseelan
Earth & Space Science News 2015
Assessment of the Indian summer monsoon in the WRF regional climate model
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh, J. S. Chowdary and C. Gnanaseelan
Climate Dynamics 2015
Impact of satellite retrieved atmospheric temperature profiles assimilation on Asian summer monsoon 2010 simulation
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh, J. S. Chowdary and C. Gnanaseelan
Journal Meteorological Society of Japan 2014
Evolution of vertical moist thermodynamic structure associated with the Indian summer monsoon 2010 in a regional climate model
Raju Attada, Anant Parekh and C. Gnanaseelan
Pure and Applied Geophysics 2014
Seasonal prediction of distinct Climate Anomalies in the summer 2010 over the Tropical Indian Ocean and South Asia
J. S. Chowdary, Raju Attada, June-Yi Lee, Yu Kosaka, Jing-Jia Luo, C. Gnanaseelan, Anant Parekh and Doo-Young Lee
Journal Meteorological Society of Japan 2013
Comparison of a simple logarithmic and equivalent neutral wind approaches for converting buoy-measured wind speed to the standard height: Special emphasis to north Indian Ocean
Prem Singh, Anant Parekh and Raju Attada
Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2013