Journal Publications -2009

01	Shravan Kumar, M., and V. K. Anandan (2009), Comparision of the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis II winds with those observed over a complex terrain in lower atmospheric boundary layer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L01805, doi:10.1029/2008GL036246
02	S. Sridharan, S. Sathishkumar, and K. Raghunath (2009), Rayleigh lidar observations of enhanced statopause temperature over Gadanki ( 13.5N, 79.2E) during major stratospheric warming in 2006, Ann. Geophys., 27, 373-379
03	Venkateswara Rao, N., A. K. Patra, and S. V. B. Rao (2009), Low-altitude quasi-periodic echoes studied using a large database of Gadanki radar observations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A01313, doi:10.1029/2008JA013397
04	Phanikumar, D. V., A. K. Patra, M. V. Ratnam, and S. Sripathi (2009), Planetary-scale variability in the low-latitude E-region field-aligned irregularities: First results from Gadanki observations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A01301, doi:10.1029/2008JA013564
05	Narayana Rao, D., M. V. Ratnam, S. Mehta, D. Nath, S. G. Basha, V. V. M. J. Rao, B.V. K. Murthy, T. Tsuda, and K. Nakamura, 2009: Validation of the COSMIC radio occultation data over Gadanki (13.48°N, 79.2°E): A tropical region. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 20, 59-70, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.23.01(F3C)
06	Radhakrishna, B., T. N. Rao, D. N. Rao, N. P. Rao, K. Nakamura, and A. K. Sharma, Spatial and seasonal variability of raindrop size distributions in Southeast India, J. Geophys. Res, 114, D04203, doi:10.1029/2008JD011226, 2009
07	Ramkumar, T. K., S. Gurubaran, and R. Rajaram (2009), Mesospheric planetary wave signatures in the equatorial electrojet, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A03309, doi:10.1029/2007JA012935
08	Patra, A. K., N. Venkateswara Rao, and R. K. Choudhary (2009), Daytime low-altitude quasi-periodic echoes at Gadanki: Understanding of their generation mechanism in the light of their Doppler characteristics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L05107, doi:10.1029/2008GL036670
09	T. Yokoyama, D. L. Hysell, A. K. Patra, Y. Otsuka, and M. Yamamoto (2009), Zonal asymmetry of daytime 150-km echoes observed by Equatorial Atmosphere Radar in Indonesia, Ann. Geophys., Ann. Geophys., 27, 967–974
10	S. Sridharan , P. Vishnu Prasanth, Y. Bhavani Kumar, Geetha Ramkumar, S. Sathishkumar, K. Raghunath (2009), Observations of peculiar sporadic sodium structures and their relation with wind variations, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71, 575-582
11	Sathishkumar, S., and S. Sridharan (2009), Planetary and gravity waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region over Tirunelveli (8.7 N, 77.8E) during stratospheric warming events, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07806, doi:10.1029/2008GL037081
12	Ravi Kiran, V., M. Rajeevan, S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao and N Prabhakara Rao, 2009, Analysis of variations of cloud and aerosol properties associated with active and break spells of Indian summer monsoon using MODIS data, Geo Phys.Letters, Vol 36, do 10.1029/2008GL037135
13	Pai, D.S. and M. Rajeevan, S, 2009, Summer monsoon onset over Kerala: New Definition and prediction, J. Earth System. Science, Vol. 118, 123-135
14	Rajeevan, M. and Jyoti Bhate, 2009, A high resolution daily gridded rainfall dataset (1971-2005) for mesoscale meteorological studies, Current Science, 96, 558-562
15	Sathishkumar, S., S. Sridharan, Ch. Jacobi (2009), Dynamical response of low-latitude middle atmosphere to major sudden stratospheric warming events, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71, 857-865
16	P. Hegde, P. Pant and Y. Bhavani Kumar, 2009, An integrated analysis of lidar observations in association with optical properties of aerosols from a high altitude location in central Himalayas , Atmospheric Science Letters, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp 48-57
17	Yadav, R. K., K. Rupa Kumar, and M. Rajeevan, 2009,Increasing influence of ENSO and decreasing influence of AO/NAO in the recent decades over northwest India winter precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D12112, doi:10.1029/2008JD011318
18	Mitra, A.K., A.K.Bohra, M.Rajeevan, and T.N.Krishnamurti, 2009, Daily Indian Precipitation Analysis from a Merge of Rain-Gauge Data with the TRMM TMPA Satellite-Derived Rainfall Estimates, J. of Met. Soc. of Japan, 87A, 265-279
19	I. Srinivasa Rao, V. K. Anandan, M. Shravan Kumar, Multi-frequency Decoding of a Phase array Doppler Sodar, 2009, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology doi:10.1175/2008, 26, 759-768
20	A. Guharay, A. Taori, S. Bhattacharjee, P. Pant, B. Pande and K. Pandey, First ground-based mesospheric measurements from central Himalayas, Current Science, 97, 5, 664 - 669.
21	Krishnamurti, T.N., Mishra, A.K., Chakraborty, A., and M Rajeevan, 2009, Improving Global Model Precipitation Forecasts over India from Downscaling and FSU Superensemble Part I- 1-5 days forecasts, Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 2713- 2735.
22	Pattanaik. D.R., M Rajeevan, 2009, Variability of extreme rainfall events over during the southwest monsoon season, Meteorological Applications, DOI 10.1002/met.164.
23	Srivastava, A.K., M Rajeevan, S.R.Kshirsagar, 2009, Development of a high resolution daily gridded temperature data set (1969-2005) for the Indian region, Atmospheric Science Letters, DOI 10.1002/asl.232.
24	Dashora, N., S. Sharma, R.S. Dabas, S. Alex and R. Pandey (2009), Large enchancements in low latitude total electron content during 15 May 2005 geomagentic strom in Indian zone, Ann. Geophs., 27, 5, 1803-1820.