Education
| Course |
Institution |
Board/
University |
Subject |
Year of
Completion |
Marks %
/ CGPA |
| X |
Don Bosco School, Bandel |
C.I.S.C. |
Science |
2004 |
85.40 % |
| XII |
Don Bosco School,
Bandel |
C.I.S.C. |
Science |
2006 |
87.25 % |
| B.Tech |
College of Engineering
and Management,
Kolaghat |
West Bengal
University of
Technology |
Electronics and
Communication |
2010 |
8.66 |
| M.Tech | Institute of Radiophysiscs
and Electronics |
University of
Calcutta
|
Radiophysics and
Electronics |
2012 |
8.89 |
| PhD | Institute of Radiophysiscs
and Electronics |
University of
Calcutta |
Radiophysics and
Electronics |
2017 |
|
Skills
GPS Meteorology, Meteorology, Weather, Electronics, Monsoon,
Numerical Weather Prediction, Satellite, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Observation,
Precipitation, Climate Variability, Atmospheric Pollution, Air Quality,
Radiometry, Clouds, Weather Forecast, Lightning
- 1. Rohit Chakraborty, Arindam Chakraborty, Ghouse Basha, Venkat Ratnam Madineni: Lightning
occurrences and intensity over the Indian region: long-term trends and future projections.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 07/2021; 21: 11161-11177.
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2. Rohit Chakraborty, Bijay Kumar Guha, Shamitaksha Talukdar, Madineni Venkat Ratnam,
Animesh Maitra: Growth in mid-monsoon dry phases over the Indian region: prevailing influence
of anthropogenic aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10/2019; 19(19):12325-12341.,
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3. Shamitaksha Talukdar, M. Venkat Ratnam, V. Ravikiran, Rohit Chakraborty: Influence of Black
Carbon Aerosol on the Atmospheric Instability. 04/2019;, DOI:10.1029/2018JD029611
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4. Rohit Chakraborty, Venkat Ratnam Madineni, Ghouse Basha: Long-term trends of instability and
associated parameters over the Indian region obtained using a radiosonde network. Atmospheric
Chemistry and Physics 10/2019; 19(6): 3687–3705.
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5. Animesh Maitra, Gargi Rakshit, Soumyajyoti Jana, Rohit Chakraborty: Effect of Boundary Layer
Dynamics on the Profiles of Rain Drop Size Distribution During Convective Rain. IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 01/2019; PP(99):1-5., DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2019.2891906
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6. Rohit Chakraborty, Ghouse Basha, M. Venkat Ratnam : Diurnal and long-term variation of
instability indices over a tropical region in India. Atmospheric Research, 207, 145-154.
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7. Animesh Maitra, Rohit Chakraborty: Prediction of Rain Occurrence and Accumulation using
Multifrequency Radiometric Observations. IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
56(5), 2789-2797, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2783848.
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8. Rohit Chakraborty, Upal Saha, A.K. Singh, Animesh Maitra: Association of atmospheric pollution
and instability indices: A detailed investigation over an Indian urban metropolis. Atmospheric Research
11/2017; 196:83-96., DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.04.033
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9. Bijay Kumar Guha, Rohit Chakraborty, Upal Saha, Animesh Maitra: Tropopause height
characteristics associated with ozone and stratospheric moistening during intense convective activity over
Indian sub-continent. Global and Planetary Change 09/2017; 158.,
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10. Rohit Chakraborty, Shamitaksha Talukdar, Upal Saha, Soumyajyoti Jana, Animesh Maitra:
Anomalies in relative humidity profile in the boundary layer during convective rain. Atmospheric
Research 07/2017; 191:74-83., DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.03.011
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11. Nandita D. Ganguly, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Can Nor'wester events initiate
stratospheric moistening?. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 07/2017; 164.,
DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.07.015
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12. Upal Saha, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra, A.K. Singh: East-west coastal asymmetry in the
summertime near surface wind speed and its projected change in future climate over the Indian region.
Global and Planetary Change 05/2017; 152:76-87., DOI:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.03.001,
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13. Saurabh Das, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: A random forest algorithm for nowcasting of
intense precipitation events. Advance in Space Research, Volume 60, Issue 6, p. 1271-1282.
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14. Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Retrieval of atmospheric properties with radiometric
measurements using neural network. Atmospheric Research 11/2016; 181:124–132.,
DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.05.011
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15. Rohit Chakraborty, Saurabh Das, Animesh Maitra: Prediction of convective events using multifrequency radiometric observations at Kolkata. Atmospheric Research 03/2016; 169(Part-A):24–31.
- 16. Saurabh Das, Souvik Majumder, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Simplistic approach for water
vapour sensing using a standalone global positioning system receiver. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
10/2014; 8(8):845-852., DOI:10.1049/iet-rsn.2013.0312
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17. Rohit Chakraborty, Saurabh Das, Soumyajyoti Jana, Animesh Maitra: Nowcasting of rain events
using multi-frequency radiometric observations. Journal of Hydrology 05/2014; 511-513.,
DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.066
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Conference Proceedings
- rijit De, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Radiometric measurements of cloud attenuation over
Earth-space path at a tropical location. URSI-GASS 2017; 08/2017,
DOI:10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8105203
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● R Chakraborty, A Maitra: Boundary layer anomalies observed from radiometric observations during
convective rain. URSI-GASS 2017, Montreal Canada; 08/2017,
DOI:10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8105104
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● Animesh Maitra, Rohit Chakraborty: Rain Prediction Using Radiometric Observations at a Tropical
Location. URSI-GASS 2017, Montreal Canada; 08/2017, DOI:10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8105124
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Goushe Basha, M Venkat Ratnam: Long term climatology of instability indices
over Gadanki, a tropical region in India. UPCAR-2017, Tirupati; 06/2017
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● Soumyajyoti Jana, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Prediction of Lightning strikes using Electric
Field at a Tropical Location. 12th International Conference on Microwaves, Antennae, Propagation
and Remote Sensing, Jodhpur, India; 02/2017
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● Gargi Rakshit, Rohit Chkraborty, Animesh Maitra: Effect of vertical wind on rain drop size
distributions in the boundary layer. International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP
2016) Okinawa, Japan, 24-28 October 2016, Okinawa Convention Center, Ginowan, Okinawa,
Japan; 10/2016
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● Animesh Maitra, Soumyajyoti Jana, Rohit Chaktaborty: Convective rain study with radiometer, radar
and electric field observations at a tropical location. Proceedings of ISAP2016, Okinawa, Japan;
10/2016
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● Gargi Rakshit, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Effect of vertical wind on rain drop size
distributions in the boundary layer. Proceedings of ISAP2016, Okinawa, Japan; 10/2016
- ● Animesh Maitra, Rohit Chakraborty, Soumyajyoti Jana: Prediction of convective rainfall using multitechnique observations. 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Seoul, Korea; 08/2016,
DOI:10.1109/URSIAP-RASC.2016.7601354
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● Soumyajyoti Jana, Arpita Adhikary, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Behaviour of Atmospheric
Electric Field at a Tropical Location. National Space Science Symposium (NSSS 2016),
Thiruvananthapuram; 02/2016
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● Shamitaksha Talukdar, Rohit Chakraborty, Thumree Sarkar, Soumyajyoti Jana, Animesh Maitra:
Signature of Earthquakes on Tropospheric temperature profiles. National Space Science Symposium
(NSSS 2016), Thiruvananthapuram; 02/2016
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● Soumyajyoti Jana, Rohit Chakraborty, Thumree Sarkar, Animesh Maitra: Multi-technique
observations of a hailstorm event at a tropical location. Conference on Computers and Devices for
Communication (CODEC 2015), Kolkata; 12/2015
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● Bijay Kumar Guha, Bidisha Nandy, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Rain Attenuation over
Earth Space Path from Radar and Propagation Measurements at Tropical Location. CODEC 2015,
Kolkata; 12/2015, DOI:10.1109/CODEC.2015.7893173
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Estimation of path integrated attenuation using ground rain rate
measurements at tropical location. International Conference on Microwaves Antennae Propagation
and Remote Sensing (ICMARS 2015), Jodhpur (Rajasthan); 12/2015
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Soumyajyoti Jana, Thumree Sarkar, Animesh Maitra: Multi-technique
observations of a hailstorm event. International Conference on Microwaves Antennae Propagation
and Remote Sensing (ICMARS 2015), Jodhpur (Rajasthan); 12/2015
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra: Prediction of accumulated rain using brightness temperature
observations at a tropical location. URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (RCRS 2015), New
Delhi; 11/2015
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● Sneha Banerjee, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra, S K Mitra: A comparative study of liquid water
profiles over Indian Subcontinent using CLOUDSAT data. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN
MICROWAVES ANTENNAE PROPAGATION AND REMOTE SENSING, JODHPUR; 12/2014
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Sumutaksha Talukdar, Animesh Maitra, S K Mitra: Relative Humidity anomalies
due to boundary layer meteorology during rain. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN
MICROWAVES ANTENNAE PROPAGATION AND REMOTE SENSING, JODHPUR; 12/2014
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● Arijit De, Rohit Chakraborty, Animesh Maitra, S K Mitra: Studies on rain induced scintillation during
convective events over Kolkata. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN MICROWAVES
ANTENNAE PROPAGATION AND REMOTE SENSING, JODHPUR; 12/2014
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● Animesh Maitra, Soumyajyoti Jana, Rohit Chakraborty, Souvik Majumder, S K Mitra: Multitechnique observations of convective rain events at a tropical location. URSI-GAAS 2014, Beijing,China;
08/2014, DOI:10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929640
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Thumree Sarkar, Soumya jyoti Jana, Arpita Adhikary, Animesh Maitra:
Signature of Convective Phenomena on Atmospheric Electric Field. National Space Science
Symposium(NSSS), Dibrugarh; 01/2014
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Saurabh Das, Animesh Maitra: Convective activities and atmospheric instabilty:
radiometric observations at Kolkata. RCRS 2014; 01/2014
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Soumyajyoti Jana, Saurabh Das, Animesh Maitra: Prediction of Convective
activities using Radiometric observations at Kolkata. International Conference of Microwave Antenna
and RemoteSensing (ICMARS), Jodhpur; 12/2013
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● Soumyajyoti Jana, Thumree Sarkar, Rohit Chkraborty, Saurabh Das, Animesh Maitra: Some studies
on convective rain associated with Indian summer monsoon using radar, radiometer and disdrometer.
International Conference of Microwave Antenna and Remote Sensing (ICMARS), Jodhpur;
12/2013
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● Saurabh Das, Rohit Chakraborty, Shamitaksha Talukdar, Animesh Maitra: Nowcasting of tropical
rain using dual frequency atmospheric brightness temperatures at Kolkata. CODEC-2012 (IEEE),
KOLKATA; 12/2012
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Souvik Majumder, Rohit Chakraborty, Saurabh Das, Animesh Maitra: Observations Of Water Vapor
With GPS Receiver, Radiometer And Radiosonde At A Tropical Location. International Conference of
Microwave Antenna and RemoteSensing (ICMARS), Jodhpur; 12/2012
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● Rohit Chakraborty, Saurabh Das, Shamitaksha talukdar, Animesh Maitra: Some Features Of
Microwave Brightness Temperatures For Nowcasting Applications At Kolkata. International Conference
of Microwave Antenna and Remote Sensing (ICMARS), Jodhpur; 12/2012
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Awards & Grants:
Apr 2017 Grant: National Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Apr 2017 Award: Young Scientist Award from India in URSI GASS 2017
Jun 2019 Grant: C V Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Apr 2020 Grant: INSPIRE Faculty
Jun 2020 Award: Young Scientist Award from India in URSI GASS 2020
May 2021 Award: Young Scientist Award from India in URSI GASS 2021
Projects Involved
- 1.Worked with ISRO project on “Integrated Studies on Water Vapour, Liquid Water Content and
Rain of the Tropical Atmosphere and Their Effects on Radio Environment” from 13 July 2012 to
31 March 2014 as Junior Research Fellow at the University of Calcutta
- 2. Worked with ISRO project on “Ku/Ka Band Channel Modeling for SATCOM Links over Indian
Region” from 26 September 2014 to 25 September 2016 as Junior Research Fellow at University
of Calcutta
- 3. Undertaken student project on “Calibration of satellite signal at Ku Band” under TEQIP II.during
November 2013 -2014 at the University of Calcutta
- 4. Completed post-doctoral research in National Atmospheric Research Laboratory with a project
from SERB under National Post-Doctoral Scheme
- 5. Completed post-doctoral research under C V Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore.
- 6. Currently working as INSPIRE Faculty in Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISC.
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Main Research Areas
- ▪Investigation of long term trends in lightning activity over the Indian Region
- ▪ Qualitative and quantitative prediction of intense convective rainfall using brightness
temperatures at 22, 31 and 58 GHz and instability data from ground based multifrequency radiometric observations.
- ▪ Use of electric field observations for detection and nowcasting of lightning strikes in 20
km radius
- ▪ Investigation of planetary boundary dynamics from radiometric and radar observations
during convective rain
- ▪ Study on long term trends of instability from re-analysis datasets
- ▪ Calculation of atmospheric instability and investigation on long term trends of
thunderstorm severity from multi-station radiosonde observations.
- ▪ Investigation of retrieval techniques to obtain reliable profiles of temperature and relative
humidity from multi-frequency radiometric observations
Other relevant research skills
During the past 7 years of my research, I have gathered significant experience in handling, operation and
maintenance of precipitation measuring instruments such as radiometer, radar, disdrometer, optical rain gauge,
electric field mill and lightning detectors. Apart from this, I also have a sound knowledge in MATLAB and am
conversant with a lot of data handling applications such as neural networks, multi-variant regression analysis,
principal components and empirical mode decompositions. After my PhD, my current field of research involves the
launching and operation of daily GPS radiosondes, whose profiles are utilized for short and long term investigation
of thunderstorm severity over the tropical Indian region.
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