Dr. Raghavendra Raju Nadimpalli

Published research works (National and International)

1. Boyaj, Alugula, P. Sinha, N. R. Karrevula, Nadimpalli, Raghu, V. Vinoj, Sahidul Islam, Manoj Khare, and U. C. Mohanty. "Assessment of the WRF Model for Real-Time Prediction of Heavy Rainfall Events over the Twin Cities of East Coast of India." Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-19, 2025.

2. Boyaj, Alugula, N. R. Karrevula, Madhusmita Swain, P. Sinha, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Sahidul Islam, V. Vinoj, Manoj Khare, Dev Niyogi, and U. C. Mohanty. "Assessment of the WRF model configuration optimization in predicting the heavy rainfall over urban city Bhubaneswar, India." Computational Urban Science 5, no. 1, 22, 2025.

3. Akhil Srivastava, M Mohapatra, Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Naresh Kumar. Evolution of heat wave monitoring and forecasting in India.  MAUSAM, volume 76, pages 303–316, 2025.

4. UC Mohanty, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Akhil SSrivastava, Ananda K Das, Krishna K Osuri, Ashish Routray, Sudheer Joseph, PLN Murty, DR Pattanaik, SG Gopalakrishnan, et al. A journey through time: The history of mesoscale severe weather monitoring and forecasting in India. MAUSAM, volume 76, pages 79–102, 2025.

5. Kesireddy Lakshman, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Akhil Srivastava, KK Osuri, Raju Attada, and Anant Parekh. High-resolution analysis of severe heat wave dynamics and thermal discomfort across India. International Journal of Climatology. Wiley Online Library, 2025.

6. Narayana Reddy Karrevula, Nadimpalli, Raghu, P Sinha, Shyama Mohanty, Alugula Boyaj, Madhusmita Swain, and UC Mohanty. Performance evaluation of WRF model in simulating extreme rainfall events over Bhubaneswar urban region of the east coast of India. Pure and Applied Geophysics, pages 1–27. Springer, 2024

7. Narayana Reddy Karrevula, Alugula Boyaj, P Sinha, Nadimpalli, Raghu, UC Mohanty, Sahidul Islam, Akshara Kaginalkar, and V Vinoj. Role of planetary boundary layer physics in urban-scale WRF model for predicting the heat waves over tropical city Bhubaneswar. Journal of Earth System Science, volume 133, pages 1–26. Springer, 2024

8. Srivastava, Akhil, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Ananda K. Das, Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Suneet Dwivedi. "A new approach to generate dynamical cone of uncertainty for cyclone track forecast over North Indian Ocean." Natural Hazards 120, no. 4, 3467-3485, 2024.

9. Boyaj, Alugula, Nadimpalli, Raghu, D Pranay Reddy, P. Sinha, N. R. Karrevula, Krishna K. Osuri, Akhil Srivastava et al. "Role of radiation and canopy model in predicting heat waves using WRF over the city of Bhubaneswar, Odisha." Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 135, no. 6, 60, 2023.

10. Patel P, Ankur K, Sajad J, Tiwari A, Raghu Nadimpalli, Busireddy N. K. R, Samira S, Karmakar S, Ghosh S, Osuri K. K, Merwade V, Aliaga D, Smith J, Marks F. D, and Niyogi D, 2023. Impact of Urban Parameterization on Simulation of Hurricane Rainfall. Geophysical Research Letters (Accepted)

11. Mohanty S., Raghu Nadimpalli, Pattanayak S., and Mohnaty UC, 2023. Storm Surge Prediction Improvement using High Resolution Meso-scale Model Products over the Bay of Bengal. Natural Hazards (Accepted).

12. Mohanty, U.C., Nayak, H., Mohanty, M.R., Sinha, P., Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Osuri, K.K., 2023. Role of land surface processes on Indian summer monsoon rainfall: Understanding and impact assessment. MAUSAM, 74(2), pp.345-360. https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v74i2.6199 

13. Swain, M., Nadimpalli, Raghu, Das AK, Mohanty UC, and Dev Niyogi, 2023. Urban modification of heavy rainfall: a model case study for Bhubaneswar urban region. Computational Urban Science, vol. 3( 2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00080-3 

14. Swain M, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Mohanty U. C, Guhathakurta P, Gupta A, Akshara K, and Niyogi D, 2023. Delay in timing and spatial reorganization of rainfall due to urbanization- analysis over India’s smart city Bhubaneswar.  Computational Urban Science, vol. 3(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00081-2 

15. Nadimpalli, Raghu, Srinivas Yerni Nekkali, Krishna K Osuri, Sourav Sil, and Ananda K Das, 2023. Study of the impact of high resolution ROMS-SST on the simulation of two intense tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using ARW modeling system. Mausam, Vol. 74, page 5766.

16. Mohanty S, Swain M, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Osuri KK, Mohanty UC, Patel P, and Niyogi D, 2023. Meteorological Precursors of Extreme Heavy Rains over Coastal City Mumbai.  62(2), 191-208. Retrieved Feb 10, 2023, from https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/62/2/JAMC-D-21-0223.1.xml 

17. Nadimpalli, Raghu,, Pratiman Patel, UC Mohanty, SD Attri, and Dev Niyogi, 2022. Impact of urban parameterization and integration of wudapt on the severe convection. Computational Urban Science, vol. 2, pages 1–14. 

18. Shyama Mohanty, Nadimpalli, Raghu,, Sudheer Joseph, Akhil Srivastava, Ananda K Das, Uma C Mohanty, and Sourav Sil, 2022. Influence of the ocean on tropical cyclone intensity using a high resolution coupled atmosphere–ocean model: A case study of very severe cyclonic storm ockhi over the north indian ocean. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 148, pages 2282–2298

19. Patel P, Sajad J, Nadimpalli Raghu, Karmakar S, Ghosh S, Aliaga D, Mills G,Chen F, Matthias D and Niyogi D, 2022. Modelling Large Scale Heatwave by Incorporating Enhanced Urban Representation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035316 

20. Nadimpalli Raghu, Osuri KK, Das AK, Mohanty UC, and Niyogi D, 2021. Effect of vortex initialization and relocation method in anticipating Tropical Cyclone track and intensity over the Bay of Bengal. Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-021-02815-x 

21. Kaginalkar A, Sachin G, Mohanty UC, Mujumdar P, Bhakare S, Darbari H, Dwivedi AK, Pallavi G, Srujan G, Sahidul I, Gouri K, Sumita K, Manoj K, Neelesh K, Kulkarni SH, Meher SS, Nath AK, Mohamed N, Sagar P, Valappil VK, Sreyashi D, Jena C, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Swain M, Saimy D, Shubha A, Kishtawal CM, Prashant G, Attri SD, and Niyogi D, 2021. Integrated urban environmental system of systems for weather ready cities in India. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0279.1 

22. Priya K, Nadimpalli Raghu, and Osuri KK, 2021. Do increasing horizontal resolution and downscaling approaches produce a skillful thunderstorm forecast?. Natural Hazards, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04893-5 

23. Vinodhkumar B, Busireddy NKR, Ankur K, Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Osuri KK, 2021. On Occurrence of Rapid Intensification and Rainfall changes in Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Ocean. International Journal of Climatology  doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7268 

24. Ankur K, Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Osuri KK, 2021. Evaluation of regional land surface conditions developed using high-resolution land data assimilation system (HRLDAS) with satellite and global analyses over India. Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-021-02698-y  

25. Mohanty U. C, Nadimpalli, Raghu, and Mohanty S, 2021. Understanding the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclone Titli using Hurricane WRF Model Simulations. Mausam, Vol. 72, Issue. 1, pg. 551-562.

26. Nadimpalli, Raghu, Mohanty S, Pathak N, Osuri K. K, Mohanty U. C, and Chatterjee S, 2021. Understanding the characteristics of rapid intensity changes of Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Ocean. SN Applied Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s42452-020-03995-2

27. Osuri, K. K, Kumar, Ankur, Nadimapalli, Raghu, Busireddy N K R, 2020. Error Characterization of ARW model in Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Rainfall over North Indian Ocean. Journal of Hydrology, Vol.590, id.125433

28. Osuri, K. K, Nadimpalli, Raghu, Kumar, Ankur, Nayak, Hara P, U C Mohanty, Ananda K. Das, and Dev Niyogi, 2020. Improved Simulation of Monsoon Depressions and heavy rains from Direct and Indirect initialization of soil moisture over India. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, doi:  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032400 

29. Mohanty, S., Nadimpalli, Raghu, U C Mohanty, A Sharma, A K Das, and S Sil, 2020. Quasi-operational forecast guidance of ESCS Fani over Bay of Bengal using High Resolution Meso-scale Models. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-020-00751-4 

30. Niyogi, Dev, Krishna K Osuri, Busireddy, N K R, and Nadimpalli, Raghu, 2020. Timing of Rainfall Occurrence Altered by Urban Sprawl. Urban Climate, 33, 100643, doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100643

31. Nadimpalli, Raghu, Sreevastava Akhil, V S Prasad, Krishna K. Osuri, Ananda K. Das. U. C. Mohanty, and D. Niyogi, 2020. Impact of INSAT-3D/3DR radiance data assimilation in predicting Tropical Cyclone Titli over Bay of Bengal. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2978211

32. Busireddy, N. K. R., Nadimpalli Raghu, Krishna K. Osuri, Kumar Ankur, U. C. Mohanty, and Dev Niyogi, 2019. Impact of vortex size and Initialization on prediction of landfalling tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal. Atmospheric research, 222(1), pp.18-29.

33. Mohanty, S., Nadimpalli Raghu, Krishna K. Osuri, S. Pattanayak, U. C. Mohanty, and Sourav Sil, 2019. Role of Sea Surface Temperature in Modulating Life Cycle of Tropical Cyclones over Bay of Bengal. Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 8(2), pp. 68-83.

34. Nadimpalli, Raghu, Krishna K. Osuri, U. C. Mohanty, Ananda K. Das, Ankur Kumar, S. Sil, and D. Niyogi, 2019. Forecasting tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal using quasi-operational WRF and HWRF modeling systems: an assessment study. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 132(1), pp.1-17.

35. Bhalachandran, S., Nadimpalli Raghu, K. K. Osuri, F. D. Marks Jr, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. Subramanian, U. C. Mohanty, and D. Niyogi, 2019. On the processes influencing rapid intensity changes of tropical cyclones over the Bay of Bengal. Scientific reports, 9(1), pp.3382.

36. Mohanty, U. C., Nadimpalli Raghu, S. Mohanty, and Krishna K. Osuri, 2019. ”Recent advancements in prediction of tropical cyclone track over north Indian Ocean basin. Mausam, 70(1), pp.57-70.

37. Nayak, H. P., K. K. Osuri, Palash Sinha, Nadimpalli Raghu, U. C. Mohanty, Fei Chen, M. Rajeevan, and D. Niyogi, 2018. High-resolution gridded soil moisture and soil temperature datasets for the Indian monsoon region.. Scientific data, 8, pp.180264.

38. Pothapakula, P. K., Krishna K. Osuri, Sujata Pattanayak, U. C. Mohanty, Sourav Sil, and Nadimpalli Raghu, 2017. ”Observational perspective of SST changes during life cycle of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal. Natural Hazards, 88(3), pp.1769- 1787.

39. Osuri, K. K., Nadimpalli Raghu, U. C. Mohanty, F. Chen, M. Rajeevan, and Dev Niyogi, 2017. Improved prediction of severe thunderstorms over the Indian Monsoon region using high-resolution soil moisture and temperature initialization. Scientific reports, 7, pp.41377.

40. Osuri, K. K., Nadimpalli, Raghu, U. C. Mohanty, and D. Niyogi, 2017. Prediction of rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Phailin over the Bay of Bengal using the HWRF modelling system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143(703), pp.678-690.

41. Nadimpalli, Raghu, Krishna K. Osuri, Sujata Pattanayak, U. C. Mohanty, M. M. Nageswararao, and S. Kiran Prasad, 2016. Real-time prediction of movement, intensity and storm surge of very severe cyclonic storm Hudhud over Bay of Bengal using high-resolution dynamical model. Natural Hazards, 81(3), pp.1771-1795.

Under review/submitted research works (National and International)

1. Nayak H.P, K. K. Osuri, U. C. Mohanty, Yongkang Xue, Raghu Nadimpalli, A K Das, and D Niyogi, 2022. Implication of contrasting surface conditions on monsoonal heavy rainfall events over India, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, (In review).

2. Raghu Nadimpalli et al. 2025. Assessment of Lightning Schemes in the Simulation of Lightning Activities over Odisha, Mausam (In review)

3. Raghu Nadimpalli et al. 2025. Understanding the role of antecedent land conditions on rapid intensity changes in landfalling tropical cyclones over the Bay of Bengal, Meteorological Applications (In review).

4. Kesireddy Lakshman,Yerni Srinivas Nekkali1, Raghu Nadimpalli2, Sahidul I3 Nadimpalli, Raghu, Akhil Srivastava, KK Osuri, Raju Attada, and Anant Parekh. Evaluating the impact of Planetary Boundary Layer on dynamics of Urban thunderstorms over the Eastern Indian region

5. Raghu Nadimpalli et al. 2025. Impact of very high-resolution urban fraction in simulating severe convection over megacities of India (Under Submission)

References

• Prof. Uma Charan Mohanty, IIT Bhubaneswar, India

• Prof. Dev Niyogi, University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Dr. Sundararaman G Gopalakrishnan, Hurricane Research Division, NOAA, USA

• Dr. Krishna K Osuri, NIT Rourkela, India

• Dr. Sourav Sil, IIT Bhubaneswar, India