Resume

  1. Education
  2. Professional appointments
  3. Languages
  4. Research areas
  5. Other information
  6. Research guidance
  7. Collaborative research projects
  8. Invited talks
  9. Teaching
  10. IITM Monsoon discussion forum
  11. Talks in workshops/conferences
  12. Other conferences/workshops/meetings
  13. Publications
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Education

Doctor of Philosophy
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Interdisciplinary programme in Climate Studies
2016-2022
Thesis title: “The Indian Summer Monsoon: Exploring the role of river runoff.”
Thesis advisors: Dr. Suryachandra A. Rao and Prof. Subimal Ghosh

Bachelor of Technology
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow, India
2008-2012

Professional appointments

Scientist D, 2021-present
Monsoon Mission, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

Member, Working Group on Numerical Experimentation panel (August 2024 – present), Earth System Modelling and Observations, core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

Member, Model Evaluation subgroup, Fresh Eyes on CMIP (August 2023 – present), CMIP Panel and Working Group on Coupled Models (WGCM) Infrastructure Panel (WIP).

Scientist C, 2017-2020 (4 years)
Monsoon Mission, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

Scientist B, 2014-2016 (3 years)
Monsoon Mission, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

Trainee Scientist, 2012-2013 (1 year 6 months)
Centre for Advanced Training, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

Languages

NCAR Command Language (NCL) Matlab C C++ Linux Unix Shell scripting Fortran Ferret Python R

Research Areas

  • Coupled ocean-atmospheric modeling
  • Interaction of Land-surface hydrology with upper-ocean in coupled models
  • Ocean mixed layer and barrier layer processes
  • Air-sea interactions associated with monsoon intra-seasonal oscillations
  • Monsoon low-pressure systems
  • Monsoon and its variability at sub-seasonal to inter-annual time scales
  • Predictability and Seasonal Prediction
  • Monsoon teleconnections with tropical modes of variability

Other Information

Indian Citizen
Member of Indian Meteorological Society

Research Guidance

Vikas Yadav, M.Sc. Atmospheric Sciences - National Institute of Technology Rourkela. Summer internship on “Predictability of the Indian Ocean Dipole: Coupled models and sub-surface variability”. June-July 2023.

Arnab Gogoi, Indian Academy of Sciences – Indian National Science Academy – National Academy of Sciences - Summer Research Fellow project on “Upper Ocean Stratification and Monsoon Low Pressure System over Bay of Bengal”, 2022.

Daniel Simon, Post-graduate research project on “The teleconnections of Equatorial Indian Ocean Sea Surface temperature and convection with Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall”, 2017 – co-supervised with Dr. Suryachandra A. Rao.

Anjana S. Nair, Summer internship on “Monsoon intraseasonal oscillations and the role of heat fluxes in determining the SST”, 2017.

Collaborative research projects

“Coupled model development, evaluation and intercomparisons” – under the Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) India project (a collaborative science initiative between the UK and India) – ongoing.

Associate in the “HYbrid numerical-empirical WIND Speed forecasting for renewable energy applications (HYWINDS)” project granted to Dr. Somnath Baidya Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi under Monsoon Mission- III – ongoing.

Associate in the “Extremes of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and their relationship to three-dimensional Diabatic Heating over the Pacific and Indian Oceans: EQUINOO, IOD and ENSO” project granted to Prof. David Strauss, George Mason University, under Monsoon Mission – II.

Invited talks

Advances in dynamical seasonal prediction in India, at the Annual Monsoon Workshop-2022 and National Symposium on Challenges in climate services for health sector in the warming environment organized by the India Meteorological Society - Pune, 28th-30th March 2023.

Applications of ensemble forecasts, capacity building workshop with stakeholders at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Telangana - India, 6th March 2020.

Dynamical Seasonal Prediction & Seasonal Climate Forecasts based on CFS, Interaction Meeting between Atmospheric and Agricultural Scientists, IITM Pune, 14th June, 2019.

Advances in dynamical seasonal prediction in India & Seasonal Monsoon Forecasts 2018 at the Annual Monsoon Workshop 2018 and Prof. D. R. Sikka Memorial National Symposium on “Role of weather & climate observations and forecasting on increasing agricultural productivity & risk management” organized by the India Meteorological Society - Pune, 28th March, 2019.

Teaching

Dynamical Seasonal Prediction, Capacity Building Training Workshop, South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF-12), India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, India – 17th April 2018.

Intra-seasonal variabilities of Indian Summer Monsoon, Faculty Development Program, Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore – India, 29th January 2019.

Predictability & Dynamical Seasonal Prediction, Faculty Development Program, Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore – India, 29th January 2019.

The Indian Summer Monsoon, an overview of mean and variability, Faculty Development Program, Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore – India, 29th January 2019.

The Monsoon Mission, Faculty Development Program, Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore – India, 29th January 2019.

Seasonal Prediction activities at IITM, Hydromet and Early Warning Joint Learning Exercise organized by the World Bank at IITM, Pune – 31st October 2022.

IITM Monsoon Discussion Forum

Monsoon discussion forums are organized in IITM every year during the boreal summer to discuss various aspects of the monsoon. I have been consistently involved in providing the seasonal outlooks at this forum (2015-present). Due to COVID some of these talks were online, benefitting audience outside of IITM. Some of these talks are available from the IITM YouTube Channel.

Talks in workshops/ conferences

Improving the Subseasonal Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon in a Climate Model, 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS2024), 23-28 June 2024 at Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea.

Seasonal forecasting of Marine Heat Waves: Translating research to ocean services. World Ocean Science Congress-2024, 27-29 February 2024 jointly organized by NIOT, IIT-Madras and Vijnana Bharti at Chennai.

Interaction of rivers with the monsoon system: A climate modelling perspective towards better monsoon forecasts, International Conference on Climate Change and Agroecosystem: Threats, Opportunities and Solutions (INAGMET-2024), 8-10 February 2024, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Conditioning of the Indian Ocean Dipole by Equatorial Pacific Ocean: Processes and Predictability, TROPMET-2023, Jaipur, 22-24 November 2023.

Role of the surface hydrological cycle in driving air-sea interactions and implications for predictability, WCRP Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 23-27 October 2023.

WCRP Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) training school on “Climate Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in the Global South” October 29 to 31, 2023 at the University of Rwanda – College of Science and Technology.

Large-scale perspective of Indian summer monsoon 2023, WCSSP India Forum on coupled process interactions, online, October 19, 2023.

“मानसून के पूर्वानुमान में नदियों की भूमिका”, National Hindi Scientific Seminar, 27th September 2023, NCPOR, Goa.

Sub-seasonal air-sea interactions in the Bay of Bengal and a recipe for improving them in coupled ocean-atmosphere models, Eighth National Conference of Ocean Society of India- OSICON-23 at INCOIS Hyderabad, 23-25 August, 2023.

Indian summer monsoon precipitation biases in GloSea and CFS and their response to large-scale drivers, 4th WCSSP India Annual Science Workshop, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi – India, 27th February 2023.

Interaction of rivers with the Indian Summer Monsoon: Modeling, impact on variability and implications for predictability, International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7), 22-26 March 2022, New Delhi, India.

Simulation of monsoon low pressure systems in a coupled model and their links to extreme rainfall events over Central India, 16th annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, 28th July-2nd August 2019.

Monsoon Low Pressure Systems: Their simulation in CFSv2 coupled model and impact of ocean-atmosphere coupled dynamics, World Ocean Science Conference, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam – India, 25-27 February 2019.

Structure, Characteristics and Simulation of Monsoon low-pressure systems in CFSv2 coupled model. National Symposium on Understanding Weather and Climate Variability: Research for Society, 24 to 27 October, 2018, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh – India

Monsoon Mission: Responsible for improving monsoon weather/climate forecasts, The Seasonal Prediction Framework at the Young Scientists’ Conference, India International Science Festival, held during October 05-06, 2018 at Lucknow - India.

Other conferences/ workshops/ meetings

The 2nd WCSSP India Annual Workshop Building a legacy in Science to Services held during 1st-4th February 2021. India-US joint workshop (EKAMSAT and CASBAH) on Arabian Sea Boundary Layer Dynamics Studies during 4 – 5 March 2021.

Workshop on National Information system for Climate and Environment Studies (NICES) and its Activities, at IITM, Pune on 8th January 2020, organized by IMS Pune Chapter (IMSP), IITM Pune and NRSC.

Workshop series on Next-Gen Agro advisory services for climate smart agriculture, Organized by International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), All India Coordinated Research Project on Agro-meteorology (AICRPAM), Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) - South Asia, December 2020 – January 2021.

The WCSSP Annual Science meeting at IITM, Pune – India, during 5-7 February 2020.

Targeted Training activity on Monsoons in a changing climate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 31st July to 4th August 2017.

Major changes in Indian Summer Monsoon circulation: Role of Indian Ocean at the International Symposium on Indian Ocean at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India, 30 November to 4 December 2016.

Modeling and Prediction of the Asian Monsoon: Improving Physical Processes, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)-IITM-Targeted Training Activity held at IITM during 9th-20th February 2015.

Intraseasonal Monsoon Predictability and Prediction, IITM-ICTP Targeted Training Activity (TTA), IITM, Pune – India, January 14-25, 2013.

National Workshop cum Training on – Data Assimilation for Atmospheric and Ocean models, 3-10 October 2012, IITM, Pune, India.

Publications

Visit my Google Scholar page for the most up-to-date list of publications. Also, please visit my publications page. If you require a pdf copy of any publication, please send me an email.

Please find a pdf copy of my resume here.

Last updated: 05 April, 2024