2025

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• Rajagopal, M., Zipser, E., & Veals, P.(2025). Diurnal cycle of precipitation in coastal tropics. Journal of Climatology, in-preparation
• Tinoco-Morales, M., Veals, P., Rajagopal, M.,Russell, J., & Zipser, E (2025). The Vertical, Horizontal, and Temporal Characteristics of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems at different Lifecycle Stages. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in-preparation
• Sakaeda, N. & Co-authors [including Rajagopal, M.](2025). Synoptic Modulation of the West African Coastal Atmosphere and Mesoscale Convective Systems. Monthly Weather Review, Submitted
• Feng, Z., and Co-authors[including Rajagopal, M.](2025). Mesoscale Convective Systems tracking Method Intercomparison (MCSMIP): Application to DYAMOND Global km-scale Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Accepted with minor revisions

2024

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• Nowattnick, E., and Co-authors[including Rajagopal, M.](2024). Dust, Convection, Winds and Waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV Campaign. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0201.1
• Russell, J., Rajagopal, M., Veals, P., Skok, G., & Zipser, E. (2024). A dataset of tracked mesoscale precipitation systems in the tropics. Geosciences data journal, 00, 1–15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.275

2023

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• Rajagopal, M., Russell, J., Skok, G., & Zipser, E. (2023). Tracking mesoscale convective systems in IMERG and regional variability of their properties in the tropics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD038563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038563

2022

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• Rajagopal, M. (2022). Spatiotemporal Variability of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Properties in the Tropics Using IMERG, Doctoral dissertation, The University of Utah. access it on proquest

2021

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• Rajagopal, M., Zipser, E., Huffman, G., Russell, J., & Tan, J. (2021). Comparisons of IMERG version 06 precipitation at and between passive microwave overpasses in the tropics. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(8), 2117– 2130. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-20-0226.1
• Tan, J., Huffman, G. J., Bolvin, D. T., Nelkin, E. J., & Rajagopal, M. (2021). SHARPEN: A scheme to restore the distribution of averaged precipitation fields. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(8), 2105–2117. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-20-0225.1