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2.       Name of the Conference : URSI Regional Conference of Radio Science – 2020

Place : Department of Electronic Science, BHU

Date of Session : February 13, 2020

Details of Session : Oral Session – IV (Commission F)

1.       Name of the Conference : URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference 2019

Place : India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Date of Session : March 09-13, 2019

Details of Session : Propagation Modelling and Remote Sensing in Complex and

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Invited Talks :

 12.    Date : January 23, 2020

          Place : Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA, Greenbelt, USA

          Lecture Title : A case  study  of a  Dust Storm as observed by  Dual-Polarised

                                  Doppler Weather Radar and other Instruments over New Delhi, India

 11.    Date : January 22, 2020

          Place : Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA, Greenbelt, USA

          Lecture Title : A study related to the morphology of clouds and microphysics of precipitation  during   inter-seasonal  phases  of    monsoon over  the urban city of Mumbai.

 10.    Date :  January 30, 2019

          Place : Savitribai Phule Pune University

          Lecture Title : Impact   of   electrified    and   non-electrified   clouds   on    themicrophysics of precipitation during the inter-seasonal phases of

                                  Indian monsoon

          Name of Meeting : National Space Science Symposium (NSSS-2019)

                                         ( Given the Lead Talk )

   9.    Date : January 19, 2019

Place : University of Calcutta

Lecture Title : The role of Doppler Weather Radar for the initiation of Thunderstorm over the Eastern India

Name of the Meeting : Brainstorming Meeting-cum-Workshop on the Plan for Utilization of data from the ST Radar at Univ. of Calcutta

    8.   Date :February 03, 2017

          Place :  SSNCE,  Chennai

          Lecture Title  : Characteristics of Clouds and Precipitations over Two heavy rainfall regions of Indian Sub-continent

          Name of the Meeting : Conference of Disaster Management

    7.   Date : December 17, 2016

          Place : Indismart Hotel, Saltlake, Kolkata

          Lecture Title : An approach towards Dual-wavelength studies of Doppler Weather Radar

          Name of the Meeting : IEEE - Workshop on Remote Sensing Application and Sciences

6. Date :  November 07, 2016

    Place : North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shilong

    Lecture Title : Characteristics of Clouds and Precipitation over the heavyprecipitation region of  Western Ghat during the Intraseasonal

                            phases of Indian Summer Monsoon by using Ka-band Doppler Radar and Disdrometer

    Name of the Meeting : Meeting for the Monsoon of North-Eastern India

5. Date  : October 12, 2016

    Place : National Centre of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA

    Title of The talk : An approach towards the Dual-Wavelength Radar Analysis from DYNAMO data

    Name of the Meeting : EOL, NCAR Group Meeting

4.   Date  : September 25-26, 2015

      Place : IISc, Bengaluru

      Title of The talk : Characteristics of Clouds as observed by Ka-band DWR over the Western Ghats during the Active and Break phases of Monsoon

      Name of the Meeting : Brainstorming Meeting on Radar Meteorology

3.   Date : April 25, 2014

      Place : Colorado State University, USA

      Title of The talk  : Cloud and Precipitation research at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

      Name of the Meeting : Radar Group Meeting

2.   Date  :  October 17-18, 2013

      Place :  IITM, Pune

      Title of The talk : Study of tropical rainfall by using ground-based multifrequency radar and Disdrometer observation

      Name of the Meeting : CAIPEEX Science Meeting

1.  Date  : August 01-03, 2011

Place : IMD Head Quarter, New Delhi

Title of The talk : Studies related to Dual-Polarised Doppler Weather Radar over India

Name of the Meeting : Meeting on Radar Meteorology

1. Chakravarty Kaustav, Arun N., Yadav P., Bhangale R., Murugavel P., Kanawade V.P., Mohmmad J., Hosalikar K.S., Pandithurai G., Characteristics of precipitation microphysics during Tropical Cyclone Nisarga (2020) as observed over the orographic region of Western Ghats in the Indian sub-continent, Atmospheric Research, 264: 105861, December 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105861, 1-10
2. Chakravarty Kaustav, Khandar S., Kiran Kumar N.V.P., Bhangale R., Maitra A., The interseasonal features of precipitation microphysics over Thiruvananthapuram and Kolkata - the two tropical stations of Indian sub-continent, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 222: 105710, October 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2021.105710, 1-11
3. Mudiar D., Pawar S.D., Hazra A., Gopalakrishnana V., Lal D.M., Chakravarty Kaustav, Domkawale M.A., Srivastava M.K., Goswami B.N., William E., Lightning and precipitation: The possible electrical modification of observed raindrop size distributions, Atmospheric Research, 259: 105663, September 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105663, 1-17
4. Chakravarty Kaustav, Gayathridevi S., Mohmmad J. et al. First results from the Doppler Weather Radar observations over Mumbai urban region during the inter-seasonal phases of 2018 monsoon, Natural Hazards, 107, June 2021, DOI:10.1007/s11069-021-04637-5, 1413-1426 
5. Chakravarty Kaustav, Vincent V., Vellore R., Srivastava A.K., Rastogi R., Soni V.K., Revisiting Andhi in northern India: A case study of severe dust-storm over the urban megacity of New Delhi, Urban Climate, 37: 100825, May 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100825, 1-11
6. Thomas A., Kanawade V.P., Chakravarty Kaustav, Srivastava A.K., Characterization of raindrop size distributions and its response to cloud microphysical properties, Atmospheric Research, 249: 105292, February 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105292, 1-9
7. Chakravarty Kaustav, Bhangale R., Das S., Yadav P., Kannan B.A.M., Pandithurai G., Unraveling the characteristics of precipitation microphysics in summer and winter monsoon over Mumbai and Chennai – the two urban-coastal cities of Indian sub-continent, Atmospheric Research, 249: 105313, January 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105313, 1-14
8. Chakravarty K., Bhangale R., Das S., Yadav P., Kannan B.A.M., Pandithurai G., Unraveling the characteristics of precipitation microphysics in summer and winter monsoon over Mumbai and Chennai – the two urban-coastal cities of Indian sub-continent, Atmospheric Research, Online, October 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105313, 1-14
9. Thomas A., Kanawade V.P., Chakravarty K., Srivastava A.K., Characterization of raindrop size distributions and its response to cloud microphysical properties, Atmospheric Research, Online, August 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105292, 1-9
10.  Chakravarty, K., P.Murugavel, A.Cristy, V.Singh and G.Pandithurai (2020), The impact of electrified and non-electrified clouds on the inter-seasonal characteristics of surface based precipitation, Journal of Earth System Science, 129, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-020-01432-x.
11. Murata, F., T.Terao, K.Chakravarty, H.J.Syiemlieh, and L.Cajee (2020), Characteristics of Orographic Rain Drop-Size Distribution at Cherrapunji, Northeast India, Atmosphere, 11, 777, https:// doi:10.3390/atmos11080777.
12.  Chakravarty, K, S.Pokhrel, M.Kalashetti, A.K.M.Nair, K.M.C.Reddy, S.M.Deshpande, S.K.Das and G.Pandithurai (2018), Unraveling of Cloud types during phases of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations by a Ka-band Doppler Weather Radar, Atmospheric Science Letters, 19, e847.DOI: 10.1002/asl.847.
13. Leena, P.P., V. Anilkumar, N. Sravanthi, R. Patil, K.Chakravarty, S.K. Saha and G. Pandithurai (2018), On the precipitation susceptibility of monsoon clouds to aerosols using high altitude ground-based observations over Western Ghats, India, Atmospheric Environment 185, 128-136.
14. Kalapureddy M.C.R., Sukanya P., Das Subrata K., Deshpande S.M., Pandithurai G., Pazamany A. L., Jha A. K., Chakravarty K., Kalekar P., Devisetty H. K., Annam S (2018), Simple biota removal algorithm for 35 GHz cloud radar measurements, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11, March 2018, DOI:10.5194/amt-11-1417-2018, 1417-1436.
15. Balaji B., T.V.Prabha, Y.JayaRao, T.Kiran, G.Dinesh, K.Chakravarty, S.Sonbawne and M.Rajeevan (2017), Potential of collocated radiometer and wind profiler observations for monsoon studies, Atmospheric Research, 194, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.04.023, 17-26.
16. Das S.K., M.Konwar, K.Chakravarty and S.M.Deshpande(2016), Raindrop size distribution of different cloud types over the Western Ghats using simultaneous measurements from Micro-Rain Radar and Disdrometer, Atmospheric Research, 186, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.11.003, 72-82
17. Deshpande,S.M., N.Dhangar, S. K.Das, M. C. R.Kalapureddy, K.Chakravarty, S.Sonbawne and M.Konwar(2015), Mesoscale kinematics derived from X-band Doppler radar observations of convective versus stratiform precipitation and comparison with GPS radiosonde profiles, Journal of Geophyical Research - Atmosphere, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022595
18. S.K.Das, S.M.Deshpande, S.S.Das, M.Konwar, K.Chakravarty, M.C.R.Kalapureddy(2015), Temporal and structural evolution of a tropical monsoon cloud system: A case study using X-band radar observations, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 133, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2015.08.009, 157-168.
19. Konwar M., S.K.Das, S.M.Deshpande, K.Chakravarty and B.N.Goswami (2014), Microphysics of clouds and rain over the Western Ghat, Journal of Geophyical Research - Atmosphere, 119, doi:10.1002/2014JD021606, 1-20
20.  Chakravarty, K and P.E.Raj (2013),Raindrop size distributions and their association with characteristics of clouds and precipitation during monsoon and post-monsoon periods over a tropical Indian station, Atmospheric Research, 124, February 2013, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.01.005,181–189.
21. Chakravarty, K , P.E.Raj, A.Bhattacharyya, A.Maitra(2013), Microphysical characteristics of clouds and precipitation during pre-monsoon and monsoon period over a tropical Indian station, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics., https://doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2012.12.016, 28–33.
22. Chakravarty K., P. Mukhopadhyay and S.Taraphdar(2011), Cloud microphysical properties as revealed by the CAIPEEX and satellite observations and evaluation of a cloud system resolving model simulation of contrasting large scale environments, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 73,August 2011, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.04.006, 1790-1797.
23. Chakravarty, K., and A.Maitra(2010), Rain attenuation studies over an earth-space path at a tropical location, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 72, 135-138.
24. Maitra, A., and K.Chakravarty (2009), Rain depolarization measurements on low margin Ku-band satellite signal at a tropical location, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 8, 445-448.
25. Maitra, A., K.Chakravarty, S.Bhattacharya, and S.Bagchi(2007), Propagation studies at Ku-band over an earth-space path at Kolkata, Indian J Radio & Space Physics, 36, 363-368.
26. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2007), Studies on Ku-band propagation over earth-space paths and related rain parameters at a tropical location, American Institute of Physics, 923, 1-6, doi: 10.1063/1.2767008.

1. Chakravarty K. and P.E.Raj (2013) , Characteristics of clouds and associated rainfall parameters in the Western Indian monsoon regime, Indian Science Congress, January 03-07, 2013, Kolkata.
2. Chakravarty K and P. Mukhopadhyay (2013), Impact of aerosol and cloud microphysical properties during different convective regimes, Indian Science Congress, January 03-07, 2013, Kolkata.
3. Chakravarty K., K.M.C.Kalapureddy, S.Deshpande, S.Das and P.E.Raj (2012), Characteristics of Raindrop Size Distribution over Pune during Convective and Stratiform rain events, Proceedings of OCHAMP-2012, February 21-25, 2012, Pune, INDIA.
4. Chakravarty K., and P.E.Raj (2011), Microphysical characteristics of clouds and precipitation during the Indian monsoon period over Kolkata region, IEEE-AEMC, Kolkata
5. Chakravarty, K., and A.Maitra (2010), Studies on some earth - space propagation phenomena characteristic to the tropical location, Abstracts of 16th National Space Science Symposium- 2010, Rajkot, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, February 24 – 27, 2010. 18. Chakravarty, K., and A.Maitra (2009), Propagation effects related to satellite communications at frequencies above 10GHz at Kolkata, Proc. Of Radio and Environmental Sciences: National Seminar , National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, April 22-23, 2009 (Won the Best Presenter Award).
6. Chakravarty, K., and A.Maitra (2009), Observations of raindrop size distribution and rain attenuation of a satellite signal at a tropical location, IEEE Applied Electromagnetic Conference (AEMC-2009), December 14-16, 2009, Kolkata (Won the Student Author Award).
7. Chakravarty, K., and A.Maitra (2008), Depolarization of Ku-band satellite signal in relation to rain attenuation for the tropical region, Proc. Of XXIXth URSI GA-2008, Chicago, USA, August 7-16, 2008 [Paper No. F05.7].(Personally went there and orally presented the paper)
8. Chakravarty, K., and Maitra, A (2008), “Depolarization of Ku-band satellite signal in relation to rain attenuation”, Abstracts of 15th National Space Science Symposium- 2008, Radio Astronomy Centre, NCRA-TIFR, Ooty, [Paper Code : PS1-OC-044] February 26- 29, 2008(Won the Second Best paper Award).
9. Maitra, A., A.Bhattacharya, A.Adhikari, and K. Chakravarty (2009), Studies on rain based on measurements of dropsize distribution and rain attenuation over earth space path, Proc. of International Symposium on Microwaves and Millimeter waves: Basics and Technology, Kolkata, January 14-16, 2009.
10. Maitra, A., A.Bhattacharya, A.Adhikari, and K. Chakravarty (2009), Studies on rain structure based on ground based dropsize distribution and earth space propagation measurements, Abstracts . of Int. Conference on Megha-Tropiques Science and Applications, ISRO HQ, Bangalore, March 23-25, 2009, [ Pg : 32-33].
11. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2007), Some features of rain attenuation and depolarization of Ku-band signals on an earth-space path at a tropical location, Proc. Of North-American URSI, Ottawa, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
12. Maitra, A., S. Bhattacharya, S. Chakraborty, and K.Chakravarty (2007), Cloud characteristics in relation to earth-space propagation in the tropical region, Proc. of North-American URSI, Ottawa, Canada, July 22-26, 2007
13. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2007), Earth-space propagation studies: A tool for atmospheric sensing”, Abstracts of INCURSI-2007, February 21-24, 2007, New Delhi, India.
14. Maitra, A., K.Chakravarty, and S. Bhattacharya (2007), Studies on rain parameters using ground-based disdrometer measurements and TRMM data at a tropical location, Abstracts of INCURSI-2007, February 21-24, 2007, New Delhi, India.
15. Maitra, A., K. Chakravarty, and S.Bhattacharya (2006) , Some features of rainfall observed with vertical structure obtained from TRMM data and ground based measurements at Kolkata, Proc. of MST-11, Gadanki, India, 478-482.
16. Chakravarty, K., and A. Maitra (2006), Propagation measurements over an earth-space path : a tool for atmospheric studies, Proc. of Young Scientists Award Presentation, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, October 12, 2006.
17. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2006), Propagation studies of Earth Space path at Ku-band in the Indian Region, Abstracts of National Space Science Symposium,February 9 – 12, 2006, Vishakhapatnam, India.
18. Maitra, A., A.Bhattacharya, K.Chakravarty, and T.Rakshit Ghosh (2006), Studies on Cloud Water Content at a Tropical Location, Abstracts of National Space Science Symposium, February 9 – 12, 2006, Vishakhapatnam, India.
19. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2005), Raindrop Size Distribution Measurements and Associated Rain Parameters at a Tropical Location in the Indian Region, Proc. of XXVIIIth URSI-GA, October 23 – 29, 2005,New Delhi, India, Paper F01.4 (0650).
20. Maitra, A., and K. Chakravarty (2005), Ku-band Rain Attenuation Observation on an Earth Space Path in the Indian Region, Proc. of XXVIIIth URSI-GA, October 23 – 29, 2005, New Delhi, Paper F01.6 (01059).
21. Maitra, A., K.Chakravarty, C.Shome, and G.Bandopadhyay (2005), Refractivity Profiles and Associated Atmospheric Monitoring from GPS Occultations and Radiosonde Observations in the Indian Region, Proc. of XXVIIIth URSI-GA, October 23 – 29, 2005,New Delhi, India, Paper FG.3(0431).
22. Maitra, A., and K.Chakravarty (2004), Studies on climatic parameters using facilities NMRF for modeling rain attenuation over earth space path, Proc. of VIIth User Scientists Workshop, July 5 – 7, 2004,NMRF, Gadanki, India.