Adames, Á F & Maloney ED (2021) Moisture Mode Theory’s Contribution to Advances in our Understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Other Tropical Disturbances. Curr Clim Chang Reports 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00172-4
Agarwal R (2018) Original Research Article Lesson Learned from Killer Floods in Kerala : Time for Retrospection. Manag Econ Res J 4:268–280. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18639/MERJ.2018.04.735013
Ali H, Mishra V (2018) Increase in Subdaily Precipitation Extremes in India Under 1.5 and 2.0 °C Warming Worlds. Geophys Res Lett 45:6972–6982. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078689
Anandh PC, Vissa NK (2020) On the linkage between extreme rainfall and the madden–julian oscillation over the indian region. Meteorol Appl 27:1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1901
Boyaj A, Ashok K, Ghosh S, et al (2018) The Chennai extreme rainfall event in 2015: The Bay of Bengal connection. Clim Dyn 50:2867–2879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3778-7
Boyaj A, Dasari HP, Hoteit I, Ashok K (2020) Increasing heavy rainfall events in south India due to changing land use and land cover. Q J R Meteorol Soc 146:3064–3085. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3826
CWC (2018) Kerala Floods of August 2018
Goswami BN, Venugopal V, Sangupta D, et al (2006) Increasing trend of extreme rain events over India in a warming environment. Science (80- ) 314:1442–1445. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132027
Guhathakurta P OPS and PAM (2011) Impact of climate change on extreme rainfall events and flood risk in India. J Earth Syst Sci 120, 120:359–373
Hunt KMR, Menon A (2020) The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective. Clim Dyn 54:2433–2446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05123-7
Joseph P V., Sijikumar S (2004) Intraseasonal variability of the low-level jet stream of the Asian summer monsoon. J Clim 17:1449–1458. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1449:IVOTLJ>2.0.CO;2
Kashyap A, Natu JC, Pise RS (2019) Cyclones and depressions over the north Indian ocean during 2018. Mausam 70:397–424. https://doi.org/http://metnet.imd.gov.in/mausamdocs/47031.pdf
Kharin V V., Zwiers FW, Zhang X, Hegerl GC (2007) Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations. J Clim 20:1419–1444. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4066.1
Kumar S, Silva Y, Moya-Álvarez AS, Martínez-Castro D (2019) Seasonal and regional differences in extreme rainfall events and their contribution to the world’s precipitation: GPM observations. Adv Meteorol 2019:6–9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4631609
Kumar SP, Roshin RP, Narvekar J, et al (2009) Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated regional climate shift. Mar Environ Res 68:217–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.06.010
Kumar V, Pradhan PK, Rao SVB, Sinha T (2020) atmosphere Interaction of a Low-Pressure System , an Off shore Trough, and Mid-Tropospheric Dry Air Intrusion : The Kerala Flood of August 2018. Atmosphere (Basel) 11:740. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070740
Min SK, Zhang X, Zwiers FW, Hegerl GC (2011) Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes. Nature 470:378–381. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09763
Mishra AK (2019) Quantifying the impact of global warming on precipitation patterns in India. Meteorol Appl 26:153–160. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1749
Mishra V, Aaadhar S, Shah H, et al (2018) The Kerala flood of 2018: combined impact of extreme rainfall and reservoir storage. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci Discuss 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-480
Mishra V, Shah HL (2018) Hydroclimatological Perspective of the Kerala Flood of 2018. J Geol Soc India 92:645–650. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-018-1079-3
Mohandas S, Francis T, Singh V, et al (2020) NWP perspective of the extreme precipitation and flood event in Kerala (India) during August 2018. Dyn Atmos Ocean 91:101158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2020.101158
Mukherjee S, Aadhar S, Stone D, Mishra V (2018) Increase in extreme precipitation events under anthropogenic warming in India. Weather Clim Extrem 20:45–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2018.03.005
Mukhopadhyay P, Bechtold P, Zhu Y, Murali RP (2021) Unravelling the mechanism of extreme ( more than 30 sigma ) precipitation during August 2018 and 2019 over Kerala , India. Weather Forecast 5:2018–2019. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0162.1
Muller CJ, Back LE, O’Gorman PA, Emanuel KA (2009) A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor. Geophys Res Lett 36:1–5. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL039667
Myhre G, Alterskjær K, Stjern CW, et al (2019) Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming. Sci Rep 9:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52277-4
Neelin JD, Peters O, Hales K (2009) The transition to strong convection. J Atmos Sci 66:2367–2384. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JAS2962.1
Nikumbh AC, Chakraborty A, Bhat GS, Frierson DMW (2020) Large-Scale Extreme Rainfall-Producing Synoptic Systems of the Indian Summer Monsoon. Geophys Res Lett 47:1–15. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088403
O’Gorman PA (2015) Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change. Curr Clim Chang Reports 1:49–59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0009-3
Pai DS, Sridhar L, Badwaik MR, Rajeevan M (2015) Analysis of the daily rainfall events over India using a new long period (1901–2010) high resolution (0.25° × 0.25°) gridded rainfall data set. Clim Dyn 45:755–776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2307-1
Pall P, Allen MR, Stone DA (2007) Testing the Clausius-Clapeyron constraint on changes in extreme precipitation under CO2 warming. Clim Dyn 28:351–363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-006-0180-2
Peng J, Dadson S, Leng G, et al (2019) The impact of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on hydrological extremes. J Hydrol 571:142–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.055
Ramaswamy C (1985) Review of floods in India during the past 75 years. Indian Natl Sci Acad 5–11
Rangarajan S, Mani A (1982) Total precipitable water in the atmosphere over India. Proc Indian Acad Sci - Earth Planet Sci 91:189–207. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02841678
Roca R, Aublanc J, Chambon P, et al (2014) Robust observational quantification of the contribution of mesoscale convective systems to rainfall in the tropics. J Clim 27:4952–4958. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00628.1
Roxy MK, Dasgupta P, McPhaden MJ, et al (2019) Twofold expansion of the Indo-Pacific warm pool warps the MJO life cycle. Nature 575:647–651. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1764-4
Roxy MK, Ghosh S, Pathak A, et al (2017) A threefold rise in widespread extreme rain events over central India. Nat Commun 8:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00744-9
Santer BD, Mears C, Wentz FJ, et al (2007) Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:15248–15253. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702872104
Sudheer KP, Murty Bhallamudi S, Narasimhan B, et al (2019) Role of dams on the floods of August 2018 in Periyar River Basin, Kerala. Curr Sci 116:780–794. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v116/i5/780-794
Trenberth KE, Dai A, Rasmussen RM, Parsons DB (2003) The changing character of precipitation. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 84:1205-1217+1161. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-84-9-1205
Varikoden H, Revadekar J V. (2020) On the extreme rainfall events during the southwest monsoon season in northeast regions of the Indian subcontinent. Meteorol Appl 27:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1822
Viswanadhapalli Y, Srinivas CV, Basha G, et al (2019) A diagnostic study of extreme precipitation over Kerala during August 2018. Atmos Sci Lett 20:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.941
Willett KM, Gillett NP, Jones PD, Thorne PW (2007) Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence. Nature 449:710–712. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06207