Although coastal and inland areas of Bangladesh exhibit distinct physiographic and climatic characteristics, spatiotemporal variation of extreme climatic events is poorly understood in these two areas. This study was an attempt to understand the trends in extreme climatic events in coastal and inland areas over the period 1968–2018. The missing data in daily maximum and minimum temperature, and daily rainfall datasets were imp...

Satellite‐derived lightning data for 17 years (1998–2014) were used to evaluate the relation between environmental factors and lightning activity over the Bangladesh landmass. Time series convective available potential energy (CAPE) data were extracted from ERA‐40 reanalysis data while total and convective rainfalls were obtained from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission's monthly products. In addition, the product of CAPE and...

Characteristics of precipitation systems in and around Bangladesh are analysed using 6 years of radar data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Precipitation systems are classified as arc, line, or scattered types according to their shape; then as small, medium, or large according to their length; and as stationary, slow, or fast according to their propagation speed. Arc‐, line‐, and scattered‐type systems are...

Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) is a regional climate model, which is used for the simulation of regional‐scale climatology at high resolution (i.e. 50‐km horizontal resolution). The calibration of rainfall and temperature simulated by PRECIS is performed in Bangladesh with the surface observational data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) for the period 1961–1990. The Climate Research...