Prof. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Visiting Faculty
Earth and Environmental Sciences
parthasarathym@iiserbpr.ac.in
+919423577870
About me
Expertise on
1. Development of high resolution numerical model
2. Development of Physical parameterization particularly cloud convection and cloud microphysical parameterization
3. Understanding and forecast of extreme precipitation events
4. Development of high resolution ensemble prediction system
5. Understanding mechanism of Intra-seasonal oscillation in monsoon and it's prediction
6. Developing Wind and Solar forecast at high spatio-temporal resolution
Biography
Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, FASc Scientist-F (Retired), Ex-Project Director Monsoon Mission Education B.Sc.
(Physics) 1985 R. K. Missionn Vidyamandir, Belur Math, Calcutta University M.
Sc. (Physics) 1988 University college of Science and Technology, Calcutta University M.
Tech (Atmospheric Science) 1991, University college of Science and Technology, Calcutta University
Ph. D.
(Physics) 2005, Pune University Research and Teaching Experience 31 Year of research experience Headed the NITI Ayog
Departmental Action Plan of Ministry of Earth Sciences on Developing a high
resolution (12km) Global Ensemble Weather Forecast Model
Have led
the indigenous development of Indian Global model with 6.5 km resolution over tropics at IITM As Adjunct Faculty of Dept. of Atmospheric and Space Science of Savitribai Phule Pune
University during 2007-2019. Guest Professor of Earth Sciences, at
IIT, Gandhinagar during July 2022-May 2023 Honour and Awards Elected
Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore from 2023 Member of WMO World Weather
Research Programme working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research (WGTMR)
Member
WMO WWRP Steering Group member of Sub-seasonal applications for agriculture and
environment (SAGE) ·
2002 Fifteenth IITM Silver Jubilee Award, IITM Pune ·
2010 Twenty third IITM Silver Jubilee Award, IITM,
Pune ·
2015 Ministry of Earth Science, Certificate of Merit
for outstanding contribution in Atmospheric Science, MoES, New Delhi ·
5th IITM Golden Jubilee award 17 November
2020 Editorial board member of Springer-Nature Journal of
Earth System Science, Indian Academy of Sciences
Springer Nature journal Pure and Applied Geophysics Students for M. Tech Thesis – 13 Students Guidance to Ph.D. Students-9 (Awarded), Ongoing-3 Publication Papers in peer reviewed journals-90 Chapter in edited books-7 Author of Books/Edited Books-3
Guidance/Mentoring Students
Key Publications
1. 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
2. Ganai M., Phani M.K.R., Tirkey S., Mukhopadhyay P., Sensitivity of enhanced vertical resolution in the operational Global Forecast System (GFS) T1534 on the short to medium range forecast of Indian summer monsoon, Climate Dynamics, Online, June 2024, DOI:10.1007/s00382-024-07316-w, 1-23
3. 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
4. Gupta, P., Verma, S., Mukhopadhyay,
P. et al. Fidelity of WRF model in simulating heat wave events over India. Sci
Rep 14, 2693 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52541-2
5. Kanase R., Tirkey S.,
Deshpande M., Phani M.K.R., Johny C.J., Mukhopadhyay P., Iyengar G., Mohapatra
M., Evaluation of the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS T1534) for the
probabilistic prediction of cyclonic disturbances over the North Indian Ocean
during 2020 and 2021, Journal of Earth System Science, 132: 143, August 2023,
DOI:10.1007/s12040-023-02166-2, 1-14
6. Sushanth K., Mishra A., Mukhopadhyay P., Singh R., Near-real-time forecasting of reservoir inflows using explainable machine learning and short-term weather forecasts , Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Online, June 2023, DOI:10.1007/s00477-023-02489-y, 1-21
7. Krishna, R.P.M., Ganai, M., Tirkey, S., Mukhopadhyay Parthasarathi: Revised cloud processes to improve the simulation and prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in climate forecast system model. Clim Dyn (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06674-1.
8. Sushanth K., Mishra Ashok, Mukhopadhyay P., Singh R., Real-time streamflow forecasting in a reservoir-regulated river basin using explainable machine learning and conceptual reservoir module, Science of The Total Environment, 861: 160680, February 2023, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160680, 1-14.
9. Sarkar R., Mukhopadhyay P., Bechtold P., Lopez P., Pawar S.D., Chakravarty Kaustav, Evaluation of ECMWF Lightning Flash Forecast over Indian Subcontinent during MAM 2020, Atmosphere, 13: 1520, September 2022, DOI:10.3390/ atmos13091520, 1-13.
10. Tirkey S., Mukhopadhyay P., Phani M.K.R., Representation of moist convective processes in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 models for the simulation of Indian summer monsoon intraseasonal variability, International Journal of Climatology, Online, June 2022, DOI:10.1002/joc.7765, 1-23.
11. Anandh, T. S.; Gopalakrishnan, Deepak; Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi 2022: Analysis of future wind and solar potential over India using climate models, Current Science, VOL. 122, NO. 11, 10 JUNE 2022, 1268-1278, doi: 10.18520/cs/v122/i11/1268-1278
12. Siddharth Kumar,R. Phani,P. Mukhopadhyay,C. Balaji 2022: Does increasing horizontal resolution improve seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon? : A climate forecast system model perspective, Geophy. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097466.
13. Sarkar S., Mukhopadhyay P., Krishna R.P.M., Dutta S., Atmospheric dynamics and internal processes in CFSv2 model during organization and intensification of BSISO, Journal of Earth System Science, 130: 229, November 2021, DOI:10.1007/s12040-021-01727-7, 1-18.
15. Roy Kumar, P. Mukhopadhyay, R.P.M Krishna, B. Khouider, B.B. Goswami, Evaluation of mean state in NCEP Climate Forecast System (version 2) simulation using a Stochastic Multicloud Model calibrated with DYNAMO RADAR data., July, 2021, AGU Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001455.
16. Tiwari Amar Deep, Mukhopadhyay Parthasarathi, and Mishra Vimal, Influence of bias correction of meteorological and streamflow forecast on hydrological prediction in India. J. of Hydrometeorology (2022), July, 23, 1171–1192, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0235.1.
17. Sarkar Sahadat, Mukhopadhyay Parthasarathi, Dutta Somenath, Krishna R. Phani Murali, Kanase D. Radhika, Prasad S. V., Deshpande S. Medha: GFS model fidelity in capturing the transition of low-pressure area to monsoon depression. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 2021; Vol.147, 2625–2637. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4024
18. Halder M., Kanase R., Mukhopadhyay P., Halder S., Pawar S.D., Domkawle M., Pandey A.C., Latest approaches to thunderstorm/lightning and severe weather forecasting using high resolution numerical model, Vayumandal, 47, 2021, 42-52
19. 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, 1253–1273
20. Sarkar S, Mukhopadhyay P, Dutta S, R. PhaniMurali Krishna. Kanase D. Radhika, Prasad, V. S., and Medha S. Deshpande, GFS model fidelity in capturing the transition of low-pressure area to monsoon depression. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 2021;1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4024.
21. Roy Kumar, Mukhopadhyay P., Krishna R.P.M., Nair A.K.M., Narayana Rao T., Ramakrishna S.S.V.S., Role of autoconversion process in assessing the low-level clouds over the southern Indian Ocean in Climate Forecast System (CFS) version 2, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Online, April 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00704-021-03630-z, 1-12
22. Malay Ganai, Snehlata Tirkey, R.P.M. Krishna, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay: The impact of modified rate of precipitation conversion parameter in the convective parameterization scheme of operational weather forecast model (GFS T1534) over Indian summer monsoon region. Atmospheric Research, August 2020, 248: 105185, January 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105185, 1-16.
23. 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
24. Suryachandra A. Rao, B. N. Goswami, A. K. Sahai, E. N. Rajagopal, P. Mukhopadhyay, M. Rajeevan, S. Nayak, L. S. Rathore, S. S. C. Shenoi, K. J. Ramesh, R. Nanjundiah, M. Ravichandran, A. K. Mitra, D. S. Pai, S. K. R. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, S. Mahapatra, S. K. Saha, H. S. Chaudhari, S. Joseph, S. Pentakota, S. Pokhrel, P. A. Pillai, R. Chattopadhyay, M. Deshpande, R. P. M. Krishna, Renu Siddharth, V. S. Prasad, S. Abhilash, S. Panickal, R. Krishnan, S. Kumar, D. A. Ramu, S. S. Reddy, A. Arora, T. Goswami, A. Rai, A. Srivastava, M. Pradhan, S. Tirkey, M. Ganai, R. Mandal, A. Dey, S. Sarkar, S. Malviya, A. Dhakate, K. Salunke, and Parvinder Maini, 2020: Monsoon Mission: A targeted activity to improve monsoon prediction across scales, January 2020, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 2509-2532, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0330.1.
25. 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
26. 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 2016–2017 monsoon seasons, Journal of Earth System Science, 128, August 2019, DOI:10.1007/s12040-019-1186-6, 1-18
27. Ganai M., Mukhopadhyay P., Phani Murali Krishna R., Abhik S., Halder M., 2019: Revised cloud and convective parameterization in CFSv2 improve the underlying processes for northward propagation of Intraseasonal oscillations as proposed by the observation-based study. Climate Dynamics, online, February 2019, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-04657-9, 1-13
28. Goswami, B.B., B. Khouider, R. Phani, P. Mukhopadhyay, and A.J. Majda, (2017): Improved tropical modes of variability in the NCEP Climate Forecast System (version 2) via a stochastic multicloud model. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 74, October 2017, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0113.1, 3339-3366https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0113.1.
29. 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
30. Ganai M., Krishna R.P.M., Mukhopadhyay P., Mahakur M., 2016: The impact of revised simplified Arakawa-Schubert scheme on the simulation of mean and diurnal variability associated with active and break phases of Indian Summer Monsoon using CFSv2, Journal of Geophysical Research, Accepted and Online available, August 2016, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025393, 1-50.
31. 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
32. Bidyut
B. Goswami, R. P. M. Krishna, P.
Mukhopadhyay, Marat Khairoutdinov, and B. N. Goswami, 2015: Simulation of
the Indian Summer Monsoon in the Superparameterized Climate Forecast System
Version 2: Preliminary Results, J.
Climate, 28, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00607.1, 8988–9012
33. Taraphdar S., Mukhopadhyay P., Goswami B.N.: Predictability of Indian summer monsoon weather during active and break phases using a high resolution regional model, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, November 2010, L21812, 1-6, doi:10.1029/2010GL044969.
34. Mukhopadhyay P., Taraphdar S., Goswami B.N.,
Krishna Kumar K.: Indian summer monsoon precipitation climatology in a high
resolution regional climate model: Impact of convective parameterization on
systematic biases, Weather and Forecasting, 25, April 2010, doi:
10.1175/2009WAF2222320.1 369-387
Contact Details
Full Name
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
parthasarathym@iiserbpr.ac.in
Contact
+919423577870
Personal Website
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