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These meteorological sub-divisions are the operational spatial scales for official forecasts issued by the IMD. Therefore, there is a direct practical utility to target these spatial scales for monitoring the evolution of the ISM. We find that the diagnosis of the climatological onset and demise dates and its variations from the TMPA product is quite similar to the rain gauge based analysis of the IMD, despite the differences in the duration of the two datasets. This study shows that the onset date variations of the ISM have a significant impact on the variations of the seasonal length and seasonal rainfall anomalies in many of the meteorological sub-divisions: for example, the early or later onset of the ISM is associated with longer and wetter or shorter and drier ISM seasons, respectively. It is shown that TMPA dataset (and therefore its follow up Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG)) could be usefully adopted for monitoring the onset of the ISM and therefore extend its use to anticipate the potential anomalies of the seasonal length and seasonal rainfall anomalies of the ISM in many of the Indian meteorological sub-divisions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11091080","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,9]],"date-time":"2019-05-09T08:19:59Z","timestamp":1557389999000},"page":"1080","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Monitoring the Indian Summer Monsoon Evolution at the Granularity of the Indian Meteorological Sub-divisions using Remotely Sensed Rainfall Products"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Amit","family":"Bhardwaj","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA"},{"name":"Florida Climate Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1345-6280","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vasubandhu","family":"Misra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA"},{"name":"Florida Climate Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA"},{"name":"Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"L18717","DOI":"10.1029\/2005GL023216","article-title":"ENSO control on the south Asian monsoon through the length of the rainy season","volume":"32","author":"Goswami","year":"2005","journal-title":"Geophys. 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