Abstract: An unprecedented rain event on 26-27 July 2005 at Mumbai motivated several research programmes on point-and-area-averaged extreme rainfalls to understand the association between atmospheric circulation and extreme rainfall.
The authors are scientists from the Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pashan, Maharashtra, respectively.
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