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Ph. D. Savitribai Phule, Pune UniversityCompleted Bachelor’s and Master’s in science and technology from Calcutta University. PhD from Savitribai Phule Pune University. Worked for more than 30 years in Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. Worked as a Visiting Professor at IIT, Gandhinagar, and IISER, Berhampur. Among many research accomplishments, he has provided leadership in the indigenous building of the Bahart Forecast System model ( a state-of-the-art global weather forecast model) from India
Krishna, R. P. M., Kumar, S., Prajeesh, A. G., Bechtold, P., Wedi, N., Roy, K., Ganai, M., Reddy, B. R., Tirkey, S., Goswami, T., Kanase, R., Sarkar, S., Deshpande, M., and Mukhopadhyay, P.: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) High-Resolution Global Forecast Model version 1: an attempt to resolve monsoon prediction deadlock, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 1879鈥�1894, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1879-2025, 2025.
Suhas D.L., Vishnu S., Goyal S., Sarkar Sahadat, Mukhopadhyay P., Ullrich P.A., Boos. W.R., Automated operational forecasting of monsoon low pressure systems, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Online, November 2024, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0067.1, 1-30
Goswami T., Mukhopadhyay P., Phani M.K.R., Rajeevan M., Chowdhuri S., Can a 12 Km GFS model simulate the observed relationship between cloud optical properties and extreme rainfall of Indian Summer monsoon?, Weather and Forecasting, Online, November 2024, DOI:10.1175/WAF-D-24-0010.1, 1-29
Kumar Siddharth, Mukhopadhyay P., Balaji C., A machine learning based deep convective trigger for climate models, Climate Dynamics, Online, July 2024, DOI:10.1007/s00382-024-07332-w, 1-18
Sardar S., Mukhopadhyay P.P., Gandhi N., Mukhopadhyay P., Possible linkage between climatic conditions and invasions on the Indian subcontinent during the period 6th century BCE to 16th century CE, Journal of Earth System Science, 133: 74, April 2024, DOI:10.1007/s12040-024-02279-2, 1-10
Phani M.K.R., Ganai M., Tirkey S., Mukhopadhyay P., Revised cloud processes to improve the simulation and prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in climate forecast system model, Climate Dynamics, Online, January 2023, DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-06674-1, 1-22
Anandh T.S., Gopalakrishnan D., Mukhopadhyay P., Analysis of future wind and solar potential over India using climate models, Current Science, 122, June 2022, DOI:10.18520/cs/v122/i11/1268-1278, 1268-1278
Kumar Siddharth, Phani R., Mukhopadhyay P., Balaji C., Does increasing horizontal resolution improve seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon?: A climate forecast system model perspective, Geophysical Research Letters, 49: e2021GL097466, April 2022, DOI: 10.1029/2021GL097466, 1-11
Mukhopadhyay P., Bechtold P., Zhu Y., Krishna R.P.M., Kumar Siddharth, Ganai M., Tirkey S., Goswami T., Mahakur M., Deshpande M., Prasad V.S., Johny C.J., Mitra A., Ashrit R., Sarkar A., Sarkar Sahadat, Roy Kumar, Andrews E., Kanase R., Malviya S., Abhilash S., Domkawle M., Pawar S.D., Mamgain A., Durai V.R., Nanjundiah R.S., Mitra A.K., Rajagopal E.N., Mohapatra M., Rajeevan M., Unravelling the mechanism of extreme (more than 30 sigma) precipitation during August 2018 and 2019 over Kerala, India, Weather and Forecasting, 36, August 2021, DOI:10.1175/WAF-D-20-0162.1, 1253鈥�1273
Roy K, Mukhopadhyay P, Krishna RPM, Ganai Malay, Mahakur M., Rao T. N., Nair Anish Kumar M., Ramakrishna S. S. V. S., Assessment of climate models in relation to the low-level clouds over the southern Indian Ocean. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 146, October 2020, Pt. A, DOI:10.1002/qj.3847, 3306-3325
Rao S.A., Goswami B.N., Sahai A.K., Rajagopal E.N., Mukhopadhyay P. et al., Monsoon Mission: A targeted activity to improve monsoon prediction across scales, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Online, September 2019, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0330.1
Mukhopadhyay P., Prasad V.S., Krishna R.P.M., Deshpande M., Ganai M., Tirkey S., Sarkar S., Goswami T., Johny C.J., Roy K., Mahakur M., Durai V.R., M Rajeevan, 2019: Performance of a very high-resolution global forecast system model (GFS T1534) at 12.5 km over the Indian region during the 2016鈥�2017 monsoon seasons, Journal of Earth System Science, 128, August 2019, DOI:10.1007/s12040-019-1186-6, 1-18
Sobel A.H., Lee C., Camargo S.J., Mandli K.T., Emanuel K.A., Mukhopadhyay P., Mahakur M., 2019: Tropical cyclone hazard to Mumbai in the recent historical climate, Monthly Weather Review, 147, July 2019, DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0419.1, 2355-2366
Ganai, M., Krishna, R. P. M., Tirkey, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., Mahakur, M., & Han, J.鈥怸. (2019). The impact of modified fractional cloud condensate toprecipitation conversion parameter inrevised simplified Arakawa鈥怱chubert convection parameterization schemeon the simulation of Indian summerMonsoon and its forecast application on an extreme rainfall event over Mumbai.Journal of Geophysical Research:Atmospheres, May, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030278, 1-21
Goswami, B.B., B. Khouider, R. Phani, P. Mukhopadhyay, and A.J. Majda, 2017: Improved tropmical modes of variability in the NCEP Climate Forecast System (Version 2) via a stochastic multicloud model. J.Atmos. Sci., 74, 3339-3366, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0113.1
Goswami, B. B., Khouider B. , Phani R., Mukhopadhyay P. and Majda A. J. (2017), Implementation and calibration of a stochastic multi cloud convective parameterization in the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFSv2), J. Adv. Model.Earth Syst., 9, doi:10.1002/2017MS001014.
Abhik S., Krishna R.P.M., Mahakur M., Ganai M., Mukhopadhyay P., Dudhia J., 2017: Revised cloud processes to improve the mean and intraseasonal variability of Indian summer monsoon in climate forecast system: Part 1, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, May 2017, DOI:10.1002/2016MS000819, 1-28
Goswami B.B., Khouider B., Phani R., Mukhopadhyay P., Majda A., 2017: Improving Synoptic and Intra-Seasonal Variability in CFSv2 via Stochastic Representation of Organized Convection, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, January 2017, DOI:10.1002/2016GL071542, 1-10
Goswami B.B., Mukhopadhyay P., Khairoutdinov M., Goswami B.N., Simulation of Indian summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in a superparameterized coupled climate model: need to improve the embedded cloud resolving model, Clim. Dyn., Published online, October 2012, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1563-1, 1-11
Abhik S., Halder M., Mukhopadhyay P., Jiang X., Goswami B.N., Possible new mechanism for northward propagation of boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations based on TRMM and MERRA reanalysis, Clim. Dyn., 40, April 2013, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1425-x, 1611-1624
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, in 2023
5th IITM Golden Jubilee Award 2020
Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India in 2015
Twenty-third IITM Silver Jubilee Award, IITM, Pune, in 2010
Fifteenth IITM Silver Jubilee Award, IITM Pune in 2002
Climate change, monsoon, Numerical Weather Prediction, Dynamic Meteorology, Physical Meteorology, Cloud Physics
