Publications
2024
Prashant Kumar, Shailendra S. Srivastava, Nirav Jivani, Atul K. Varma, Chie Yokoyama and Takuji Kubota. "Long-term assessment of ERA5 reanalysis rainfall for TRMM LIS observed lightning events over India." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
2023
Shukla, K. K., Som Kumar Sharma, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar Kamat, Raju Attada, and Sourita Saha. "Characterization of a Regional Dust Storm Using RAMAN Lidar Over the Western Indian Region." Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (2023): 1-11.
Saha, Sourita, Dharmendra Kumar Kamat, Som Sharma, Prashant Kumar, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Hassan Bencherif, Shyam Lal, and Satish Chandra. "Response of the boundary layer clouds to the surface forcings: A case study of western India." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2023): 101073.
Kandula V Subrahmanyam, J Srinivasulu, Prashant Kumar, Rajashree V Bothale & M V R Sesha Sai. "Contrasting changes of snowfall in response to temperature and rainfall over two distinct geographic ranges of the Himalayas: A study using the High Asia Refined analysis data." Journal of Earth System Science 132, 79 (2023).
Sourita Saha, Som Sharma, Abha Chhabra, Prashant Kumar, Niranjan K Kondapalli, Dharmendra Kamat, Shyam Lal. "Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Ahmedabad, Western Indian Region: Impact of COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown." Pure and Applied Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-023-03230-0.
2022
Kumar, Prashant, Atul K. Varma, Takuji Kubota, Moeka Yamaji, Tomoko Tashima, Tomoaki Mega, and Tomoo Ushio. "Long-Term High-Resolution Gauge Adjusted Satellite Rainfall Product over India." Earth and Space Science, 9, e2022EA002595. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002595.
N. G. Keerthy, S. S. M. Gavaskar, Nandeesha, Anu K. Babu and Prashant Kumar. "Skill of the High-Resolution WRF Rainfall Forecast by Dense Rain Gauge Network: A Case Study Over Karnataka, India". Pure Appl. Geophys. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03188-5.
Kumar, Prashant, Munn Vinayak Shukla, and Atul K. Varma. "Impact of All Sky Water Vapour Channel Radiance from INSAT-3D/3DR Satellite over South-Asia Region using WRF Model." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4323
Shukla, K. K., Chandan Sarangi, Raju Attada, and Prashant Kumar. "Characteristic dissimilarities during high aerosol loading days between western and eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain." Atmospheric Environment 269 (2022): 118837.
Saha, Sourita, Som Sharma, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Shyam Lal, and Dharmendra Kamat. "Investigation of atmospheric boundary layer characteristics using ceilometer lidar, COSMIC GPS RO satellite, radiosonde and ERA-5 reanalysis dataset over Western Indian region." Atmospheric Research 268 (2022): 105999.
Saha, Sourita, Som Sharma, Abha Chhabra, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Dharmendra Kamat, and Shyam Lal. "Impact of dust storm on the atmospheric boundary layer: a case study from western India." Natural Hazards (2022): 1-13.
2021
Kumar, Prashant, and R. M. Gairola. "Fostering the Need of L-Band Radiometer for Extreme Oceanic Wind Research." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2021).
Kumar, Prashant, Rakesh Gairola, Takuji Kubota, and Chandra Kishtawal. "Hybrid assimilation of satellite rainfall product with high density gauge network to improve daily estimation: A case of Karnataka, India." Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II (2021).
Sad, Hari Prasad, Prashant Kumar, and Sambit Kumar Panda. "Doppler weather radar data assimilation at convective-allowing grid spacing for predicting an extreme weather event in Southern India." International Journal of Remote Sensing 42, no. 10 (2021): 3681-3707.
Dubey, Amit Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Vinay Chembolu, Subashisa Dutta, Raghavendra P. Singh, and Ajay Singh Rajawat. "Flood modeling of a large transboundary river using WRF-Hydro and microwave remote sensing." Journal of Hydrology 598 (2021): 126391.
Sankhala, Dineshkumar K., Prashant Kumar, Sanjib K. Deb, Neeru Jaiswal, C. M. Kishtawal, and R. M. Gairola. "Retrieval and Application of Rapid-Scan Atmospheric Motion Vectors Using an Infrared Channel of the INSAT-3DR Satellite." Pure and Applied Geophysics 178, no. 4 (2021): 1459-1476.
Sharma, Som, and Prashant Kumar. "Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic: scenario in a tropical environment." Pure and applied geophysics 178, no. 8 (2021): 3169-3177.
Saha, Sourita, Som Sharma, K. Niranjan Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Vaidehi Joshi, George Georgoussis, and S. Lal. "A case study on the vertical distribution and characteristics of aerosols using ground-based raman lidar, satellite and model over Western India." International Journal of Remote Sensing 42, no. 17 (2021): 6417-6432.
Gopalan, Kaushik, Bipasha Paul Shukla, Som Sharma, Prashant Kumar, Abhineet Shyam, Amita Gaur, and Surendra Sunda. "An Observational Study of GPS-Derived Integrated Water Vapor over India." Atmosphere 12, no. 10 (2021): 1303.
Shukla, K. K., Raju Attada, Aman W. Khan, and Prashant Kumar. "Evaluation of extreme dust storm over the northwest Indo-Gangetic plain using WRF-Chem model." Natural Hazards (2021): 1-24.
2020
Kumar, Prashant. "Assimilation of the rain gauge measurements using particle filter." Earth and Space Science 7, no. 10 (2020): e2020EA001212.
Deb, Sanjib K., Dineshkumar K. Sankhala, Prashant Kumar, and Chandra M. Kishtawal. "Retrieval and applications of atmospheric motion vectors derived from Indian geostationary satellites INSAT-3D/INSAT-3DR." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 140, no. 1 (2020): 751-765.
Sankhala, Dineshkumar K., Sanjib K. Deb, Prashant Kumar, and C. M. Kishtawal. "Retrieval and application of high-resolution low-level visible winds from INSAT-3DR imager." International Journal of Remote Sensing 41, no. 12 (2020): 4726-4741.
Saha, Sourita, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Som Sharma, Prashant Kumar, and Vaidehi Joshi. "Can Quasi‐Periodic Gravity Waves Influence the Shape of Ice Crystals in Cirrus Clouds?." Geophysical Research Letters 47, no. 11 (2020): e2020GL087909.
Saxena, Pallavi, Saurabh Sonwani, Som K. Sharma, Prashant Kumar, and Naveen Chandra. "Carbonaceous aerosol variations in foggy days: A critical analysis during the fireworks festival." Fresenius Environ Bull 29, no. 8 (2020): 6639-6656.
Umakanth, N., G. Ch Satyanarayana, B. Simon, Prashant Kumar, and M. C. Rao. "Impact of convection and stability parameters on lightning activity over Andhra Pradesh, India." Acta Geophysica 68, no. 6 (2020): 1845-1866.
Mandal, Anup Kumar, Ratheesh Ramakrishnan, Smita Pandey, A. D. Rao, and Prashant Kumar. "An early warning system for inundation forecast due to a tropical cyclone along the east coast of India." Natural Hazards 103, no. 2 (2020): 2277-2293.
Joshi, Vaidehi, Som Sharma, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Nisha Patel, Prashant Kumar, Hassan Bencherif, Priyanka Ghosh, Chintan Jethva, and Rajesh Vaishnav. "Analysis of the middle atmospheric ozone using SABER observations: a study over mid-latitudes in the northern and southern hemispheres." Climate Dynamics 54, no. 3 (2020): 2481-2492.
Singh, Alvin, Purnadurga Geesupalli, Naga Rajesh Anandan, T. V. Kumar, Manoj Kumar Thakur, Som Sharma, and Prashant Kumar. "Scaling of heavy rainy days with upper air profiles over Chennai during Northeast monsoon." Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics (IJRSP) 49, no. 4 (2021): 153-161.
2019
Kumar, Prashant, and Munn V. Shukla. "Assimilating INSAT‐3D thermal infrared window imager observation with the particle filter: A case study for Vardah Cyclone." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124, no. 4 (2019): 1897-1911.
Kumar, Prashant, and R. M. Gairola. "Impact of SCATSat‐1 retrieved wind vectors on short‐range WRF Model predictions over the South Asia region." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124, no. 22 (2019): 11994-12009.
Khan, Aman W., and Prashant Kumar. "Impact of chemical initial and lateral boundary conditions on air quality prediction." Advances in Space Research 64, no. 6 (2019): 1331-1342.
Bhomia, Swati, Prashant Kumar, and C. M. Kishtawal. "Evaluation of the weather research and forecasting model forecasts for Indian summer monsoon rainfall of 2014 using ground based observations." Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 55, no. 4 (2019): 617-628.
Bushair, M. T., Prashant Kumar, and R. M. Gairola. "Evaluation and assimilation of various satellite-derived rainfall products over India." International Journal of Remote Sensing 40, no. 14 (2019): 5315-5338.
Raju, Attada, Prashant Kumar, Anant Parekh, K. Ravi Kumar, C. Nagaraju, J. S. Chowdary, and D. Nagarjuna Rao. "Evaluation of Upper Tropospheric Humidity in WRF Model during Indian Summer Monsoon." Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 55, no. 4 (2019): 575-588.
Jaiswal, Neeru, Prashant Kumar, and C. M. Kishtawal. "SCATSAT-1 wind products for tropical cyclone monitoring, prediction and surface wind structure analysis." Curr. Sci 117, no. 6 (2019): 983-992.
Mallik, Chinmay, Parth Sarathi Mahapatra, Prashant Kumar, Subhasmita Panda, R. Boopathy, Trupti Das, and Shyam Lal. "Influence of regional emissions on SO2 concentrations over Bhubaneswar, a capital city in eastern India downwind of the Indian SO2 hotspots." Atmospheric Environment 209 (2019): 220-232.
Vaishnav, Rajesh, Som Sharma, K. K. Shukla, Prashant Kumar, and S. Lal. "A comprehensive statistical study of cloud base height using ceilometer over western India." Advances in Space Research 63, no. 5 (2019): 1708-1718.
Patel, Nisha, Som Sharma, Vaidehi Joshi, Prashant Kumar, Narendra Ojha, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Harish Chandra, and Gufran Beig. "Observations of middle atmospheric seasonal variations and study of atmospheric oscillations at equatorial regions." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 193 (2019): 105066.
2018
Sharma, Som, Prashant Kumar, Rajesh Vaishnav, K. K. Shukla, and D. V. Phanikumar. "Analysis of total column ozone, water vapour and aerosol optical thickness over Ahmedabad, India." Meteorological Applications 25, no. 1 (2018): 33-39.
Attada, Raju, Prashant Kumar, and Hari Prasad Dasari. "Assessment of land surface models in a high-resolution atmospheric model during Indian summer monsoon." Pure and Applied Geophysics 175, no. 10 (2018): 3671-3696.
Sharma, Som, Prashant Kumar, Rajesh Vaishnav, Chintan Jethva, and Hassan Bencherif. "Evaluation of Inter-Hemispheric Characteristics of the Tropopause–Stratopause–Mesopause Over Sub-Tropical Regions." Pure and Applied Geophysics 175, no. 3 (2018): 1123-1137.
Shukla, Bipasha Paul, Abhisek Chakraborty, Prashant Kumar, and Raj Kumar. "Atmospheric fronts using RISAT-1 SAR data: Case studies for shear lines." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 11, no. 12 (2018): 4711-4717.
2017
Kumar, Prashant, and Atul K. Varma. "Assimilation of INSAT‐3D hydro‐estimator method retrieved rainfall for short‐range weather prediction." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 143, no. 702 (2017): 384-394.
Kumar, Prashant, and C. M. Kishtawal. "Importance of satellite-retrieved rain/no-rain information on short-range weather predictions." International Journal of Remote Sensing 38, no. 13 (2017): 3851-3864.
Kumar, Prashant, Kaushik Gopalan, Bipasha Paul Shukla, and Abhineet Shyam. "Impact of single-point GPS integrated water vapor estimates on short-range WRF model forecasts over southern India." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 130, no. 3 (2017): 755-760.
Kumar, Prashant, Sanjib K. Deb, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of assimilation of INSAT-3D retrieved atmospheric motion vectors on short-range forecast of summer monsoon 2014 over the south Asian region." Theoretical and applied climatology 128, no. 3 (2017): 575-586.
Kumar, Prashant, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of ECMWF, NCEP, and NCMRWF global model analysis on the WRF model forecast over Indian Region." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 127, no. 1 (2017): 143-151.
Sharma, Som, Prashant Kumar, Rajesh Vaishnav, Chintan Jethva, and G. Beig. "A study of the middle atmospheric thermal structure over western India: Satellite data and comparisons with models." Advances in Space Research 60, no. 11 (2017): 2402-2413.
Jangid, Buddhi Prakash, Prashant Kumar, Attada Raju, and Raj Kumar. "Significance of high resolution GHRSST on prediction of Indian Summer Monsoon." Advances in Space Research 59, no. 9 (2017): 2349-2359.
Sharma, Som, Prashant Kumar, Chintan Jethva, Rajesh Vaishnav, and Hassan Bencherif. "Investigations of the middle atmospheric thermal structure and oscillations over sub-tropical regions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres." Climate Dynamics 48, no. 11 (2017): 3671-3684.
Sharma, Som, Prashant Kumar, Rajesh Vaishnav, H. Chandra, H. Gadhavi, S. Sridharan, and A. Jayaraman. "Study of Stratospheric Sudden Warming (SSW) over the tropical and subtropical regions of India using Rayleigh lidar." International Journal of Remote Sensing 38, no. 15 (2017): 4285-4302.
Vishnu, R., Y. Bhavani Kumar, P. R. Sinha, T. Narayana Rao, E. James Jebaseelan Samuel, and Prashant Kumar. "Comparison of mixing layer heights determined using LiDAR, radiosonde, and numerical weather prediction model at a rural site in southern India." International Journal of Remote Sensing 38, no. 22 (2017): 6366-6385.
2016
Kumar, Prashant, Bipasha P. Shukla, Som Sharma, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "A high-resolution simulation of catastrophic rainfall over Uttarakhand, India." Natural Hazards 80, no. 2 (2016): 1119-1134.
Kumar, Prashant, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Skill of regional and global model forecast over Indian region." Theoretical and applied climatology 123, no. 3 (2016): 629-636.
Kumar, Prashant, Satya P. Ojha, Randhir Singh, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Performance of weather research and forecasting model with variable horizontal resolution." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 126, no. 3 (2016): 705-713.
Khan, Aman W., Prashant Kumar, and Atul K. Varma. "Impact of assimilation of MADRAS geophysical parameters on short range WRF model forecasts." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54, no. 12 (2016): 6970-6975.
Sharma, Som Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Rajesh Vaishnav, and Shyam Lal. "Evaluation of clouds simulated by a weather model over western India." Remote Sensing Letters 7, no. 9 (2016): 905-913.
Deb, S. K., C. M. Kishtawal, Prashant Kumar, AS Kiran Kumar, P. K. Pal, Nitesh Kaushik, and Ghansham Sangar. "Atmospheric Motion Vectors from INSAT-3D: Initial quality assessment and its impact on track forecast of cyclonic storm NANAUK." Atmospheric research 169 (2016): 1-16.
Sharma, Som, H. Chandra, G. Beig, Prashant Kumar, and Rajesh Vaishnav. "Investigations of mesospheric temperature inversions over sub-tropical location using lidar and satellites measurements." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 138 (2016): 54-65.
Sharma, Som, Rajesh Vaishnav, Munn V. Shukla, Prashant Kumar, Prateek Kumar, Pradeep K. Thapliyal, Shyam Lal, and Yashwant B. Acharya. "Evaluation of cloud base height measurements from Ceilometer CL31 and MODIS satellite over Ahmedabad, India." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9, no. 2 (2016): 711-719.
Vyas, Swapnil S., Rahul Nigam, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, and Prashant Kumar. "Development of real-time reference evapotranspiration at the regional scale using satellite-based observations." International Journal of Remote Sensing 37, no. 24 (2016): 6108-6126.
Sinha, P. R., L. K. Sahu, R. K. Manchanda, V. Sheel, M. Deushi, M. Kajino, M. G. Schultz, N. Kumar, Prashant Kumar et al. "Transport of tropospheric and stratospheric ozone over India: Balloon-borne observations and modeling analysis." Atmospheric environment 131 (2016): 228-242.
2015
Kumar, Prashant, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, and P. K. Pal. "Evaluation of weather research and forecasting model predictions using micrometeorological tower observations." Boundary-Layer Meteorology 157, no. 2 (2015): 293-308.
Kumar, Prashant, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "The impact of background error parameters on heavy rainfall prediction." International Journal of Remote Sensing 36, no. 23 (2015): 5935-5947.
Kaur, Inderpreet, Prashant Kumar, S. K. Deb, C. M. Kishtawal, P. K. Pal, and Raj Kumar. "Impact of Kalpana-1 retrieved atmospheric motion vectors on mesoscale model forecast during summer monsoon 2011." Theoretical and Applied Climatology 120, no. 3 (2015): 587-599.
Kaur, Inderpreet, Prashant Kumar, S. K. Deb, C. M. Kishtawal, P. K. Pal, and Raj Kumar. "Impact of Kalpana-1 retrieved multispectral AMVs on Mahasen tropical cyclone forecast." Natural Hazards 77, no. 1 (2015): 205-222.
Raju, Attada, Anant Parekh, Prashant Kumar, and C. Gnanaseelan. "Evaluation of the impact of AIRS profiles on prediction of Indian summer monsoon using WRF variational data assimilation system." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120, no. 16 (2015): 8112-8131.
2014
Kumar, Prashant, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of satellite rainfall assimilation on Weather Research and Forecasting model predictions over the Indian region." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 5 (2014): 2017-2031.
Kumar, Prashant, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, Rahul Nigam, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of Kalpana‐1 derived land surface albedo on short‐range weather forecasting over the Indian subcontinent." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 6 (2014): 2764-2780.
Kumar, Prashant, S. K. Deb, R. K. Gangwar, B. Simon, and P. K. Pal. "Layer average relative humidity from SAPHIR on board Megha-Tropiques: validation with numerical model analyses." International Journal of Remote Sensing 35, no. 13 (2014): 4839-4851.
Kumar, Prashant, C. M. Kishtawal, and P. K. Pal. "Sensitivity analysis of high-resolution Oceansat-2 scatterometer winds on Thane cyclone simulation." International Journal of Remote Sensing 35, no. 23 (2014): 7927-7940.
Kumar, Prashant, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, C. M. Kishtawal, and Sujit Basu. "Modelling Agro-Met Station Observations Using Genetic Algorithm." International Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 2014 (2014).
2013
Kumar, Prashant, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of vegetation fraction from Indian geostationary satellite on short-range weather forecast." Agricultural and forest meteorology 168 (2013): 82-92.
Mathur, A. K., R. K. Gangwar, B. S. Gohil, Sanjib K. Deb, Prashant Kumar, Munn V. Shukla, B. Simon, and P. K. Pal. "Humidity profile retrieval from SAPHIR on-board the Megha-Tropiques." Current Science (2013): 1650-1655.
2012
Kumar, Prashant, KP Harish Kumar, and Pradip Kumar Pal. "Impact of Oceansat-2 scatterometer winds and TMI observations on Phet cyclone simulation." IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 51, no. 6 (2012): 3774-3779.
Kumar, Prashant, Munn V. Shukla, Pradeep K. Thapliyal, Jagat H. Bisht, and P. K. Pal. "Evaluation of upper tropospheric humidity from NCEP analysis and WRF Model Forecast with Kalpana observation during Indian summer monsoon 2010." Meteorological Applications 19, no. 2 (2012): 152-160.
Kumar, Prashant, and Manoj Kumar. "Finite-element approximation for singularly perturbed nonlinear elliptic boundary-value problems." Computational Mathematics and Modeling 23, no. 1 (2012): 88-95.
2011
Kumar, Prashant, Randhir Singh, P. C. Joshi, and P. K. Pal. "Impact of additional surface observation network on short range weather forecast during summer monsoon 2008 over Indian subcontinent." Journal of earth system science 120, no. 1 (2011): 53-64.
Singh, Randhir, Prashant Kumar, and Pradip Kumar Pal. "Assimilation of Oceansat-2-scatterometer-derived surface winds in the weather research and forecasting model." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50, no. 4 (2011): 1015-1021.
Deb, S. K., Prashant Kumar, P. K. Pal, and P. C. Joshi. "Assimilation of INSAT data in the simulation of the recent tropical Cyclone Aila." International journal of remote sensing 32, no. 18 (2011): 5135-5155.
Srivastava, A., Prashant Kumar, M Kumar, and S.K. Dey. "Partial differential equations: Theory and Methods." International Journal of Applied Sciences and Computations 18, no. 2 (2011), 65-108
2010
Kumar, Prashant, and Manoj Kumar. "Simulation of a nonlinear Steklov eigenvalue problem using finite-element approximation." Computational Mathematics and Modeling 21, no. 1 (2010): 109-116.
Shah, Shivani, B. M. Rao, Prashant Kumar, and P. K. Pal. "Verification of cloud cover forecast with INSAT observation over western India." Journal of earth system science 119, no. 6 (2010): 775-781.
2009
Kumar, Manoj, and Prashant Kumar. "Computational method for finding various solutions for a quasilinear elliptic equation of Kirchhoff type." Advances in Engineering Software 40, no. 11 (2009): 1104-1111.
Kumar, Manoj, and Prashant Kumar. "A finite element approach for finding positive solutions of semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems." Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations: An International Journal 25, no. 5 (2009): 1119-1128.
2008
Kumar, Manoj, Peetam Singh, and Prashant Kumar. "A survey on various computational techniques for nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems." Advances in Engineering Software 39, no. 9 (2008): 725-736.