आईआईटीएम
IITM

• Awarded the first prize in National Level Technical Event Cynosure 2k14 (Quick Circuit Making) at Imperial College of Engineering, Pune.

• Awarded the first prize in National Level Technical Event Technovision 2014(Circuit Design & Simulation) at TSSM’s College of Engineering, Pune

• Awarded the first prize in National Level Technical Event Dexterity 2k14 (Circuit Debugging) at Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Engineering, Pune.

• Awarded the second prize in National Level Technical Event INNOVATION 2K14 (Reversim) at Cummins College of Engineering, Pune.

• Awarded the first prize in National Level Technical Event Cynosure 2k13 (Quick Circuit Making) at Imperial College of Engineering, Pune.

• Awarded the third prize in National Level Technical Event MindSpark’13(Circuit Fixer) at College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).

• Awarded the second prize in National Level Technical Event Engineering Today 2013(Circuit Wizard) at AISSMS’s College of Engineering, Pune.

• Awarded the second prize in National Level Technical Event Solutions 2013(Operation Impedance) at Army Institute & Technology, Pune.

13. Ghosh, R., Vaidya, P. R., Domkawale, M. A., Pawar, S. D., & Gopalakrishnan, V., Change in convection and thunderstorm occurrences over the Indian subcontinent during the COVID-19 pandemic, Environmental Research Letters, 20(9), September 2025, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adf863, 094032

12. Biswasharma R., Domkawale M.A., Ghosh R., Gangane A., Umakanth N., Sunil Kumar, Gopalakrishnan V., Pawar S.D., DiGangi E., Deshpande S.M., Samanta D., Sharma S., Assessment of the Indian Lightning Location Network (ILLN) using ground-based and satellite observations, Atmospheric Research, 320: 108069, July 2025, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.108069, 1-15

11. Kokilavani S., Geethalakshmi V., Ramanathan S.P., Pawar S.D., Gopalakrishnan V., Mahapatra S., Dhangar J.C., Dheebakaran G., Sathyamoorthy N.K., Kumar M.S., Kumar S. M., Domkawale M.A., Thermodynamics link with lightning incidents in Tamil Nadu, India, Journal of Earth System Science, 134: 6, March 2025, DOI:10.1007/s12040-024-02468-z, 1-10

10. Lal D.M., Umakanth N., Domkawale M.A., Gopalakrishnan V., Srivastava M.K., Pawar S.D., Association of lightning with LCL, EL, humidity at 850 mb and at 200 mb during various CAPE, over northern India, Science of The Total Environment, 915: 169947,March 2024, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169947, 1-12

9. Ghosh R., Pawar S.D., Hazra A., Wilkinson J., Mudiar D., Domkawale M.A., Gayatri Vani K., Gopalakrishnan V., Seasonal and regional distribution of lightning fraction over Indian subcontinent, Earth and Space Science, 10: e2022EA002728, June 2023, DOI:10.1029/2022EA002728, 1-19

8. Pawar V.S., Domkawale M.A., Bhalwankar R.V., Gopalakrishnan V., Pawar S.D., Lightning activity and Convective Available Potential Energy during different phases of Indian summer monsoon season over central region of India, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 135: 32, May 2023, DOI:10.1007/s00703-023-00969-y, 1-10

7. Gayatri V.K., Mohan G.M., Hazra A., Pawar S.D., Pokhrel S., Chaudhari H.S., Konwar M., Saha Subodh K., Mallick C., Das Subrata K., Deshpande S.M., Ghude S.D., Domkawale M., Rao Suryachandra A., Nanjundiah R.S., Rajeevan M., Evaluation and Usefulness of Lightning Forecasts Made with Lightning Parameterization Schemes Coupled with the WRF Model, Weather and Forecasting, 37, May 2022, DOI:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0080.1, 709–726

6. 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

5. Mukhopadhyay P., Bechtold P., Zhu Y., Krishna R.P.M., Kumar Siddharth, Ganai M., Tirkey S., Goswami T., Mahakur M., Deshpande M., Prasad V.S., Johny C.J., Mitra A., Ashrit R., Sarkar A., Sarkar Sahadat, Roy Kumar, Andrews E., Kanase R., Malviya S., Abhilash S., Domkawale M., Pawar S.D., Mamgain A., Durai V.R., Nanjundiah R.S., Mitra A.K., Rajagopal E.N., Mohapatra M., Rajeevan M., Unravelling the mechanism of extreme (more than 30 sigma) precipitation during August 2018 and 2019 over Kerala, India, Weather and Forecasting, 36, August 2021,DOI:10.1175/WAF-D-20-0162.1, 1253-1273

4. Gopalakrishnan V., Pawar S.D., Domkawale M.A., Charging processes during the dissipation stage of thunderstorms, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 133, June 2021,DOI:10.1007/s00703-020-00755-0, 467-478

3. Halder M., Kanase R., Mukhopadhyay P., Halder S., Pawar S.D., Domkawle M., Pandey A.C., Latest approaches to thunderstorm/lightning and severe weather forecasting using high resolution numerical model, Vayumandal, 47, June 2021,42-52

2. Mukhopadhyay P., Bechtold P., Zhu Y., Krishna R.P.M., Kumar Siddharth, Ganai M., Tirkey S., Goswami T., Mahakur M., Deshpande M., Prasad V.S., Johny C.J., Mitra A., Ashrit R., Sarkar A., Sarkar Sahadat, Roy Kumar, Andrews E., Kanase R., Malviya S., Abhilash S., Domkawale M., Pawar S.D., Mamgain A., Durai V.R., Nanjundiah R.S., Mitra A.K., Rajagopal E.N., Mohapatra M., Rajeevan M., Unravelling the mechanism for extreme rain events in Kerala, India (NOWCAST: Papers of Note), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 2021,400-401

1. Pawar V., Domkawale M., Pawar S.D., Salvekar P.S., Pradeep Kumar P., Inter annual variability of Tropospheric NO2 and Tropospheric Ozone over Maharashtra (India): the role of lightning, Remote Sensing Letters, 8, July 2017, DOI:10.1080/2150704X.2017.1346398, 1015-1024