Rajesh Kumar¹, Sachin D Ghude², Chinmay Jena², Stefano Alessandrini¹, Mrinal Biswas¹, Vijay Soni³, Siddhartha Singh⁴, Ravi S. Nanjundaiah⁵ and M. Rajeevan⁶, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (3)India Meteorological Department, New Delhi-110003, India, (4)Indian Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India, (5)College Station, TX, United States, (6)Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India