Director, Institute for Advanced Research in Science, Bangalore Kusuma G Rao, a Doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences from Department of Aerospace, IISc, Bangalore, is currently the Director of IARSc, Bangalore. Her research interests are Mesoscale convective systems, monsoons, atmospheric boundary layer and mesoscale modelling for short term weather prediction. She currently works with Global Precipitation Mission…
Scientist-G & Executive Director, Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India Dr. Krishnan Raghavan specializes in climate modeling studies on scientific issues relating to “Climate Change, Asian Monsoon and Water Cycle”. Currently he heads the Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR) at IITM, Pune. Under his leadership, the CCCR…
Head of ‘National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting’ (NCMRWF), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. Dr. Ashis Kumar Mitra, is currently the Head of ‘National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting’ (NCMRWF), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. Dr. Mitra has 35 years of experience in Numerical Modelling for Weather /Climate, Data…
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Convener, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Prof. Subimal Ghosh is currently serving as the Convener of Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies and an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research interest includes hydro-climatology, regional climate modelling, understanding of Indian…
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS)Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Venugopal Vuruputur has a B.Tech. from IIT Madras and an M.S and PhD from University of Minnesota, all in Civil Engineering. Following postdoc tenures at Centre for Ocean Land-Atmosphere Studies, Maryland and at University of Minnesota, he became a member of the faculty at…
Head, Land and Atmospheric Physics Division (LAPD), Earth and Climate Sciences Area (ECSA), National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, India. He is currently heading Climate Studies Group of Earth and Climate Studies Area at the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad. He was Assistant Project Scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, US (2001-2010) and…
