Publications

Peer review journals and preprints

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A., & Sahlée, E. (2025). Domain and Background Field Configuration Drive Parametric Uncertainty in Atmospheric River Detection over the Euro-Atlantic. Journal of Climate, Revision submitted. 

• Thandlam, V., Sahlée, E. & Rutgersson, A. (2025). Improved Scaling and Impact Metrics for Pan-Atlantic Atmospheric Rivers. Submitted.

• Venkatramana Kaagita, Venugopal Thandlam, Venkatramana Reddy Sakirevupalli,  Byju Pookkandy, and Bathireddy Gari Sarojamma, “Future changes in extreme precipitation and warm days over megacities of India and the semi-arid Tirupati district”, MAUSAM (Quarterly Journal of Meteorology, Hydrology & Geophysics), under review.

• Sara Lindersson et al., "Unpacking and navigating complexity in disaster risk reduction", Nature Sustainability. Under review.

• Venugopal Thandlam, Teena Davis, Venkatramana Kaagita, Anna Rutgersson, and Hasibur Rahaman. "Probing the spuriousness of observed downwelling radiative fluxes over the global Tropical Oceans", Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Under review. 

2025

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A. & Sahlée, E. Structural uncertainty in mapping Euro-Atlantic atmospheric rivers obscures understanding of associated meteorological extremes. Sci Rep 15, 33325 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19685-1.

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2024

• kaagita, V., Thandlam, V., Sakirevu Palli, V.R. et al. Diagnosing the role of atmospheric variability on the extreme summer monsoon precipitation events over India. Discov Atmos 2, 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44292-024-00021-7

• Thandlam, V., Kaagita, V. & Sakirevupalli, V.R. Long-term meteorological characteristics and extreme climate indices over Tirupati: a rapidly developing tropical city. Discov Cities 1, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44327-024-00013-7

2023

• Thandlam, V., Rahaman, H., Rutgersson, A. et al. Quantifying the role of antecedent Southwestern Indian Ocean capacitance on the summer monsoon rainfall variability over homogeneous regions of India. Sci Rep 13, 5553 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32840-w

2022

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A., Rahaman, H., Yabaku, M., Kaagita, V., & Sakirevupalli, V. R. (2022). Quantifying uncertainties in CERES/MODIS Downwelling radiation fluxes in the global tropical oceans. SPJ Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. https://doi.org/10.34133/olar.0003

2021

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A. & Sahlee, E. Spatio-temporal variability of atmospheric rivers and associated atmospheric parameters in the Euro-Atlantic region. Theor Appl Climatol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03776-w.

• Banik, T., Thandlam, V., De, B.K. et al. Understanding the dynamics of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal using lightning data. Meteorol Atmos Phys 133, 1505–1522 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-021-00824-y. 

2020

• Thandlam, V., T.V.S, U.B., Hasibur, R. et al. A sea-level monopole in the equatorial Indian Ocean. npj Clim Atmos Sci 3, 25 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0127-z.

2019

• Thandlam, V., Rahaman, H. Evaluation of surface shortwave and longwave downwelling radiations over the global tropical oceans. SN Appl. Sci. 1, 1171 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-1172-2.

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A., & Rahaman, H. (2019). Are we in the right path in using early warning systems? Journal of Extreme Events, 6(02), https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737619500039.

• Damian Ejlli and Venugopal R. Thandlam "Graviton-photon mixing", Phys. Rev. D 99, 044022 – 2019. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.04402

2018

• Rahaman, H., Venugopal, T., Penny, S. G., Behringer, D. W., Ravichandran, M., Raju, J. V. S., … Sengupta, D. (2018). Improved ocean analysis for the Indian Ocean. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 12(1), 16–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2018.1547261

• Venugopal, T., Ali, M.M., Bourassa, M.A. et al. Statistical Evidence for the Role of Southwestern Indian Ocean Heat Content in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall. Sci Rep 8, 12092 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30552-0.

• Thandlam, Venugopal and K. Venkatramana "Enhancing Vertical Resolution Of Satellite Atmospheric Profile Data: A Machine Learning Approach." International Journal of Advanced Research 6 (2018): 542-550, http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/7836.

• Venugopal Thandlam and Uday Bhaskar. T.V.S “An alternate and a better approach to estimate geostrophic velocities in the Bay of Bengal in the absence of salinity profiles”, International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography, ISSN 0973-2667 Volume 12, Number 1 (2018), pp. 29-41. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326697302_An_Alternate_and_a_Better_Approach_to_Estimate_Geostrophic_Velocities_in_the_Bay_of_Bengal_in_the_Absence_of_Salinity_Profiles

• Chandrasekhara rao, A. V., Siby Kurian, P. J. Vidya, Mangesh Gauns, Damodar M. Shenoy, Amara Mulla, Hema Naik, T. Venugopal Reddy, and S. W. A. Naqvi. "Phytoplankton response to the contrasting physical regimes in the eastern Arabian Sea during the northeast monsoon." Journal of Marine Systems 182 (2018): 56-66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.02.002. 

2017

• Kurian, Nisha, T. Venugopal, Jatin Singh, and M. M. Ali. "A soft‐computing ensemble approach (SEA) to forecast Indian summer monsoon rainfall." Meteorological Applications 24, no. 2 (2017): 308-314, https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1650. 

2016

• Venugopal, T., Rahman, H., Ravichandran, M., & Ramakrishna, S. S. V. S. (2016). Evaluation of MODIS/CERES downwelling shortwave and longwave radiation data over global tropical oceans. Proceedings Volume 9876, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation VI; 98761F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228041.

2015

• Ali, M. M., P. V. Nagamani, N. Sharma, RT Venugopal, M. Rajeevan, G. J. Goni, and Mark A. Bourassa. "Relationship between ocean mean temperatures and Indian summer monsoon rainfall." Atmospheric Science Letters 16, no. 3 (2015): 408-413, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl2.576.

Conference and other publications

• Antonio, B., Lawrence, B., OUALA, S., Barton, B., Domingues, C. M., Coney, J., Venugopal, T., Teena, D., Mak, J., Jozef, S., Partridge, D., Reiss, R. S., Sommer, A., Wilder, T., Bougoudis, I., Isaac, A., Monahan, T., Tooth, O. J., Drillet, Y., … fablet, . ronan . (2025, July 10). Machine Learning for Ocean Modelling Workshop, Reading, 24-25 June 2025 - posters and presentation slides. Machine Learning for Ocean Modelling, University of Reading, London Road. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15827422

• Venkatrmana Kaagita, Venugopal Thandlam, Venkatramana Reddy Sakirevu Palli and Byju Pookkandy (2025), Assessment of future climate projections for Tirupati district using the latest IPCC AR6 models, National Symposium on Seventy-Five years of Accomplishment of Mausam: Journal of Meteorology, Hydrology and Geophysics.

• Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A., & Sahlee, E. (2022). Rivers in the sky: Atmospheric rivers and hydro-meteorological extremes: An introduction and review of recent studies. 10.13140/RG.2.2.23875.58404

• Nagamani, P. V., Venugopal, T., Ali, M. M., Goni, G. J., Krishna, V. G., Bhaskar, T. U., & Bhanu, V. (2012). An Atlas of the Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential of the North Indian Ocean. 10.13140/RG.2.1.1333.2249

• Venugopal T, Neerja Sharma, M.M. Ali and S.Vijaya Bhaskar Rao (2012).  A Neural Network Approach to Improve the Vertical Resolution of Atmospheric Relative Humidity Profiles from Geostationary Satellites. 10.13140/RG.2.1.4741.0966