V. Venugopal

Research Interests	Stochastic Hydrology Space-time Structure and Scale-invariance of Precipitation Precipitation Downscaling Retrieval and Validation of Remotely-sensed Precipitation Cloud-resolving Models
Education	Ph. D. (Civil Engg.), Univ. of Minnesota, 1998.
Contact Info	Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Karnataka 560012 India E-mail: venu@caos.iisc.ernet.in Tel.: +91-80-2293-3073 Fax : +91-80-2360-0865

Selected Publications

B. N. Goswami, V. Venugopal, D. Sengupta, M. Madhusoodanan and Prince K. Xavier, Increasing trend of extreme rain events over India in a warming environment, Science, 314, 1442, doi: 10.1126/science.1132027, 2006. Venugopal, V., S. G. Roux, E. Foufoula-Georgiou and A. Arneodo, Revisiting multifractality of high resolution temporal rainfall using a wavelet-based formalism, Water Resources Research, 42 (W06D14), doi:10.1029/2005WR004489, 2006. Gupta, R., V. Venugopal and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A methodology for merging multisensor precipitation estimates based on expectation-maximization and scale recursive estimation, J. Geophysical Research, 111 (D02102), doi:10.1029/2004JD005568, 2006. Smedsmo, J., V. Venugopal, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, K. Droegmeier, and F. Kong, On the vertical structure of modeled and observed clouds: Insights for rainfall retrieval and microphysical parameterization, J. Applied Meteorology, 44 (12), 1866–1884, 2005. Benedetti, A., P. Lopez, E. Moreau, P. Bauer and V. Venugopal, Verification of TMI-adjusted rainfall analyses of tropical cyclones at ECMWF using TRMM Precipitation Radar, J. Applied Meteorology, 44 (11), 1677–1690, 2005. Venugopal, V., S. G. Roux, E. Foufoula-Georgiou and A. Arneodo, Scaling behavior of high resolution temporal rainfall: New insights from a wavelet-based cumulant analysis, Physics Letters A, doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2005.08.064, 2005. Venugopal V., S. Basu, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A new metric for comparing precipitation patterns with an application to ensemble forecasts, J. Geophysical Research, 110 (D08111), doi:10.1029/2004JD005395, 2005. Venugopal V., F. Porte-Agel, E. Foufoula-Georgiou and M. Carper, Multiscale interactions between surface shear stress and velocity in turbulent boundary layers, J. Geophysical Research, 108(D18), 4613, 10.1029/2002JD003025, 2003. Venugopal V., E. Foufoula-Georgiou and V. Sapozhnikov, Evidence of dynamic scaling in space-time rainfall, J. Geophysical Research, 104 (D24), 31599-31610, 1999. Venugopal V., E. Foufoula-Georgiou and V. Sapozhnikov, A space-time downscaling model for rainfall, J. Geophysical Research, 104(D16), 19705-19721, 1999.