Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

Scientist Profile

Dr.(Smt.) Ashwini Kulkarni

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: Retired Scientist

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Area of Expertise

Monsoon Variability and Teleconnections

Academic Records

Degree	University	Year	Stream
Ph. D.	Pune University	1992	Statistics
M. Phil.	Pune University	1986	Statistics
M. Sc	Pune University	1983	Statistics
B. Sc.	Pune University	1981	Statistics, Mathematics, Physics

Research

Climate variations and tele-connections over South, East and South-east Asia

Tele-connections : Indian monsoon and El Nino Southern Oscillation, Eurasian and Himalayan Snow and Indian Ocean Dipole

Role of intra-seasonal oscillations in seasonal monsoon strength

Science of Climate change and Asian monsoon variability in coupled climate model simulations and projections under IPCC AR4

Applications of Statistics in Atmospheric Research

Awards & Honors

Award Name	Awarded By	Awarded For	Year
IITM Silver Jubilee Award	IITM, Pune	Best research contribution in 1997	1997

Scientific Careers

Year	Designation	Institute
2014-Present	Scientist E	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2007-2013	Scientist D	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2003-2007	Scientist C	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
1999-2003	Scientist B	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
1994-1999	JSO	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
1988-1994	SSA	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

Research Highlight

Projected changes in rainfall and temperature over homogeneous regions of India

The projections indicate the increase in the summer monsoon (June through September) rainfall over all the homogeneous regions (15 to 19%) except peninsular India (around 5%). The analysis over five homogeneous regions indicates that the mean maximum surface air temperatures for the pre-monsoon season (March–April–May) as well as the mean minimum surface air temperature for winter season (January–February) may be warmer by around 4 °C towards the end of the twenty-first century

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(1) Invited Lectures

§ A joint International IITM-ADPC Training Workshop on Synthesizing Observed Local Variability and Climate Extremes (SOLVE), India,March 2009

§ Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop, UNDP, Bangkok, June 2006

§ IITM-IRI Workshop , India, May 2003

§ Dept of Statistics, Pune University,India , Jan 2002

§ National Insurance Academy, Pune, India, Jun 2001, Jul 2002

§ Institute of Armament Technology, Pune., India , Oct 2000

§ Space Application Centre, Ahemadabad , India , Junl 2000

§ Indian Meteorological Society, Pune Chapter, India, Dec 1998, Dec 1999

§ IITM/ IMD Workshop , India, Aug 1998

§ Traing course in Agrometeorological Data Monitoring and Management, IITM, India , Dec 1997

§ IV SERC School on Advanced Geophysical Fluid Dynamics , India, June 1997

(2) Foreign Deputations

· Visiting Scientist at Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg Germany, 1Sep – 30 Nov 1994

· First GKSS Spring School, Luneburg, Germany,20-27 Apr 1997

- Second GKSS School, Luneburg, Germany, 23-30 Sep 1998
- Nominated to participate in SAARC Seminar on “Climate Variability Over South Asian region and its Impacts”, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 10-12 Dec 2002
- Workshop on “Organization and Maintenance of Tropical Convection and the MJOs”, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 13-17 Mar 2006
- Invited speaker at Disaster risk Reduction workshop of UNDP, Bangkok, Thailand, 26-28 June 2006
- 3^rd WCRP Int Conf on Reanalysis Tokyo, Japan, 28Jan-1 Feb 2007
- UKIERI Workshop on “ Statistical Downscaling and linking its applications Norwich, UK, 26Jan-31Jan 2009

(3) Honours

Expert Member, Committee on Environment and Climate Change to evaluate planned schemes of the MOEF&CC
Nominated to 'Empirical Statistical Downscaling Group Asia'.
Member of the Editorial Board of “Meteorological Applications”, a Royal Met Soc Journal,UK

(4) Capacity Building

· Teaching in M Tech (Atmospheric and Space Science, Pune University) since 1999

· “Adjunct Professor” of Dept of Physics, Pune University since 2000

· Recognized Guide for Ph. D., Dept of Atmospheric and Space Science, Pune University

· Teaching in A Comprehensive Training in Atmospheric Sciences for Research Fellows, Research Associates and young scientists of the Institute, IITM, Pune, 2007, 2009

· Actively involved in activities of the Academic Cell of the Institute

(5) Sponsored Projects

“ENSO-Snow-Monsoon Interactions : understanding and predicting monsoon variability”, DST sponsored project, R H Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (Co-PI), 2000-2003
“Examining Indian monsoon variability in Coupled Climate Model simulations and projections”, DST sponsored project, Ashwini Kulkarni (PI), S S Sabade and R H Kripalani, 2006-2009
“Weather Insurance with respect to rainfall”, sponsored by Agricultural Insurance Corporation of India, Prof Rajas Parchure (National Insurance academy, Pune), Ashwini Kulkarni (Statistical Expert) and G S Rao, 2004-2008
INDO-UK Phase II program “Development and Dissemination of High Resolution Climate Change Scenarios for India” Co-PI, 2008-2009

(6) Trainings attended

- General Purpose Training, IITM, Jun-Oct 1989, 72%, Rank First
- Advanced Refresher Course on Long Range Forecasting, IMD, Pune, Jun 1997

(7) Scientific papers reviewed for :

Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, International Journal of Climatology , Natural Hazards , Current Science ,Climate Research, Mausam , Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Asia Oceania Conference Proceedings, Meteorological Applications , Geophysical Research letters

(8) Membership of Learned Societies

Life member of Indian Meteorological Society, Indian Statistical Association, Indian Women Scientist Association

(9) Guidance provided

· Mr Altaf Tamboli for M. Tech Project “Examining temperature variability under MPI-ECHAM5 model : Simulations and projections”Dept of Atmospheric and Space Science, Pune University, Pune, 2007

· For Ph. D : 3 have registered

Publications

Scientific Journals : 56 ; Newsletters/Proceedings/ Books : 30

56. Halder S., Parekh A., Chowdary J.S., Gnanaseelan C., Kulkarni Ashwini, Assessment of CMIP6 models' skill for tropical Indian Ocean sea surface temperature variability, International Journal of Climatology, Online, December 2020, DOI:10.1002/joc.6975, 1-21

55. Kulkarni Ashwini, Guhathakurta P., Patwardhan S., Gadgil S., Meteorological sub-divisions of India: Assessment of coherence, homogeneity and recommended redelineation, Mausam, 71, October 2020, 585-604

54. Koteswara Rao K., Lakshmi Kumar T.V., Kulkarni Ashwini, Ho C-H., Mahendranath B., Desamsetti S., Patwardhan S., Dandi A.R., Barbosa H., Sabade S., Projections of heat stress and associated work performance over India in response to global warming, Scientific Reports, 10: 16675, October 2020, DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-73245-3, 1-14

53. Koteswara Rao K., Kulkarni Ashwini, Patwardhan S.K., Vinodh Kumar B., Lakshmi Kumar T.V., Future changes in precipitation extremes during northeast monsoon over south peninsular India, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 142, October 2020, DOI:10.1007/s00704-020-03308-y, 205–217

52. Yaduvanshi A., Kulkarni Ashwini, Bendapudi R., Haldar K., Observed changes in extreme rain indices in semiarid and humid regions of Godavari basin, India: risks and opportunities, Natural Hazards, 103, August 2020, DOI:10.1007/s11069-020-04006-8, 685-711

51. Kelkar S.M., Kulkarni Ashwini, Koteswara Rao K., Impact of climate variability and change on crop production in Maharashtra, India, Current Science, 118, April 2020, DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1235-1245, 1235-1245

50. Joshi M.K., Rai A., Kulkarni A., Kucharski F., Assessing changes in characteristics of hot extremes over India in a warming environment and their driving mechanisms, Scientific Reports, 10:2631, February 2020, DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-59427-z, 1-14

49. Ghanekar S.P. , Bansod S.D., Narkhedkar S.G., Kulkarni Ashwini, Variability of Indian summer monsoon onset over Kerala during 1971-2018, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 138, October 2019, DOI:10.1007/s00704-019-02853-5, 729-742

48. Patwardhan S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Koteswara Rao K., Projected changes in rainfall and temperature over homogeneous regions of India, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 131, January 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00704-016-1999-z, 581-592

47. Kulkarni Ashwini, Homogeneous clusters over India using probability density function of daily rainfall, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 129, July 2017, DOI:10.1007/s00704-016-1808-8, 633-643

46. Kakade S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Association between Arctic Circulation and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall, Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting, 5, July 2017, DOI:10.4172/2332-2594.1000208, 1-5

45. Kakade S.B., Kulkarni Ashwini, Seasonal prediction of summer monsoon rainfall over cluster regions of India, Journal of Earth System Science, 126, April 2017, DOI:10.1007/s12040-017-0811-5, 1-15

44. Shrestha A.B., Bajaracharya S., Sharma A., Duo C., Kulkarni Ashwini, Observed trends and changes in daily temperature and precipitation extremes over the Koshi river basin 1975–2010, International Journal of Climatology, 37, February 2017, DOI:10.1002/joc.4761, 1066-1083

42. Deshpande N.R., Kothawale D.R., Kulkarni Ashwini, Changes in climate extremes over major river basins of India, International Journal of Climatology, 36, November 2016, DOI:10.1002/joc.4651, 4548–4559

41. Kulkarni Ashwini, Gadgil S., Patwardhan S., Monsoon variability, the 2015 Marathwada drought and rainfed agriculture, Current Science, 111, October 2016, 1182-1193

40. Patwardhan S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Sabade S., Projected Changes in Semi Permanent Systems of Indian Summer Monsoon in CORDEX-SA Framework, American Journal of Climate Change, 5, June 2016, DOI:10.4236/ajcc.2016.52013, 1-14

39. Kakade S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Prediction of summer monsoon rainfall over India and its homogeneous regions, Meteorological Applications, 23, January 2016, DOI:10.1002/met.1524, 1-13

38. Rajbhandari R., Shrestha A. B., Kulkarni A., Patwardhan S.K., Bajracharya S.R., Projected changes in climate over the Indus river basin using a high-resolution regional climate model (PRECIS), Climate Dynamics, 44, January 2015, DOI:10.1007/s00382-014-2183-8, 339-357

37. Patwardhan S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Krishna Kumar K., Impact of climate change on the characteristics of Indian summer monsoon onset, International Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2014, September 2014, Article ID 201695, 1-11

36. Sabeerali C. T., Suryachandra A Rao, George G., Nagarjuna Rao D., Mahapatra S., Kulkarni Ashwini, Murtugudde R., Modulation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in the recent warming period, Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, June 2014, 5185-5203

35. Kakade S.B., Kulkarni Ashwini, Convective activity over heat-low region and Indian summer monsoon rainfall during contrasting phases of ESI tendency, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115, February 2014, DOI:10.1007/s00704-013-0920-2, 591-597

34. Koteswara Rao K., Patwardhan S.K., Kulkarni Ashwini, Kamala K., Sabade S.S., Krishna Jumar K., Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation indices over India using PRECIS, Global and Planetary Change, 113, February 2014, DOI:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.006, 77-90

33. Ashwini Kulkarni , Savita Patwardhan K. Krishna Kumar , K Ashok , and R Krishnan (2013) Projected Climate Change in the Hindu Kush–Himalayan Region By Using the High-resolution Regional Climate Model PRECIS Mountain Research and Development, 33(2):142-151

32. S B Kakade and Ashwini Kulkarni (2013) Convective activity over heat-low region and Indian summer monsoon rainfall during contrasting phases of ESI tendency Theor Appl Climatol DOI 10.1007/s00704-013-0920-2

31. S B Kakade, Ashwini Kulkarni (2013) Prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using surface temperature and sea-level pressure cluster parameters , Current Science, 105, no 7, 964-970

30. S B Kakade and Ashwini Kulkarni (2012) Relationship between ESI tendancy and Indian monsoon rainfall : a possible mechanism Atmospheric Sci Lett 13, 22-28

29. N R Deshpande, Ashwini Kulkarni, K Krishna Kumar (2012) Characteristic features of hourly rainfall in India Int J Climatology , 32, 1730-1744

28. SK Patwrdhan, Ashwini Kulkarni and K Krishna Kumar (2012) Impact of Global warming on Cyclonic Disturbances over South Asian Region JESS , Vol 121, No 1, 203-210

27. Ashwini Kulkarni (2012) Weakening of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in Warming Environment, Theoretical and Applied Climatology 109,447-459

26. S B Kakade and Ashwini Kulkarni (2012) The changing relationship between surface temperature and Indian monsoon rainfall with the phase of ESI tendancy Advances in Meteorology

25. R H Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (2012) Monsoon aspects related to Climate ChangeMonsoon Monograph, Vol II, IMD

24. K. Krishna Kumar, S K Patwardhan, Ashwini. Kulkarni, K. Kamala, K. Koteswara Rao and R. Jones(2011) Simulation and Projections of summer monsoon climate over India by high resolution regional climate model Current Science ,101,3,10 Aug 2011, 1-15

23. S B Kakade, Ashwini Kulkarni, S S Dugam (2011) Interaction between tendency Effective Strength Index and thermal field over Tibetan Plateau in relation with sub-divisional summer monsoon rainfall over India Earth Science India e-journal, July 2011,vol 4(III), 159-170

22. Ashwini Kulkarni, RH Kripalani, SS Sabade, M Rajeevan (2011) Role of intra-seasonal oscillations in modulating Indian summer monsoon Rainfall, Climate Dynamics , 2011, 36, 1005-1021

21. S S Sabde, Ashwini Kulkarni, RH Kripalani (2011) Projected changes in South Asian summer monsoon by multi-model global warming experiments, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 103, 543-565

20. J V Revadekar and Ashwini Kulkarni (2008) El Nino Southern Oscillation and winter precipitation extremes over India Int J Climatol, 28,1445-1452

19. Ashwini Kulkarni, S S Sabade and R H Kripalani (2009) Spatial variability of intra-seasonal oscillations in extreme Indian monsoons, International Journal of Climatology , 29, doi : 10.1002/joc1844, 1945-1955

18. Ashwini Kulkarni, S S Sabade and R H Kripalani (2007) Association between extreme monsoons and the dipole mode over the Indian sub-continent Meteor Atmos Phys , 95 , Nos 3-4, 255-268

17. R H Kripalani, J H Oh, Ashwini Kulkarni, S S Sabade and H S Chaudhari (2007) South Asian Summer monsoon precipitation variability : Coupled climate model simulations and projections under IPCC AR4. Theor Appl Climatol , 90, 133-159

16. R.H. Kripalani, J.-H. Oh, J.-H. Kang, S.S. Sabade and Ashwini Kulkarni (2005) Extreme monsoons over and East Asia: Possible role of Indian Ocean Zonal Mode Theor. Appl. Climatol. 82, 81-94

15. R.H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni, S.S. Sabade, J.V. Revadekar, S.K. Patwardhan and J.R. Kulkarni (2004) Intra-seasonal oscillations during monsoon 2002 and 2003. Current Science, 87: 325-331.

14. R.H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni, S.S. Sabade and M.L. Khandekar (2003) Indian monsoon variability in a global warming scenario. Natural Hazards 29 : 189-206

13. R.H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni and S.S. Sabade (2003) Western Himalayan snow cover and Indian monsoon rainfall :A Re-examination with INSAT and NCEP/NCAR data Theor. Appl. Climatol. 74 :1-18

12. R H Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni and S S Sabade (2003) El Nino Southern Oscillation, Eurasian snow cover and Indian monsoon rainfall Indian National Science academy Part-A, Physical Sciences, (PINSA-A) 67 : 361-368

11. R. H. Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (2001) Monsoon rainfall variations and teleconnections over South and East Asia Int. J. Climatol. 21 : 603-616

10. R. H. Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (1999) Climatology and variability of Historical Soviet Snow Depth Data : Some new perspectives in Snow-Indian monsoon teleconnections Climate Dynamics 15 : 475-489

9. R. H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni, S. R. Inamdar and K. D. Prasad (1999) Teleconnections : Northern Hemisphere lower stratospheric geopotential heights and Indian monsoon rainfall Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. 69 : 195-203

8. R. H. Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (1998)The relationship between some large scale atmospheric parameters and Rainfall over Southeast Asia : A comparison with features over IndiaTheor. Appl. Climatol.59 : 1-11

7. Ashwini Kulkarni and R. H. Kripalani (1998) Rainfall patterns over India : Classification with Fuzzy c-means methodTheor. Appl. Climatol., 59 : 137-146

6. R. H. Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (1997) Climatic impact of El Nino / La Nina on the Indian monsoon : A new perspectiveWeather 52 : 39-46

5. R. H. Kripalani and Ashwini Kulkarni (1997) Rainfall variability over Southeast Asia - Connections with Indian monsoon and ENSO extremes : New perspectives Int. J. Climatol. 17 : 1155-1168

4· R. H. Kripalani , Ashwini Kulkarni and S. V. Singh (1997) Association of the Indian summer monsoon with the Northern hemisphere mid-latitude circulation Int. J. Climatol. 17 : 1055-1067

3. Ashwini Kulkarni and Hans von Storch (1997) Monte Carlo Experiments on the effect of serial correlation on the Mann- Kendall test of trend Meteorological Zeitschrift, N. F. 4, F.2, 82-85

2. Ashwini Kulkarni and S V Singh (1995) Skills in prediction of 5-day monsoon rainfall by using self-analogues Mausam, 46, 35-40

1. Ashwini Kulkarni, R. H. Kripalani and S. V. Singh (1992) Classification of summer monsoon rainfall patterns over India Int. J. Climatol. 12 : 269-280

Guidance provided

· Mr Altaf Tamboli for M. Tech Project “Examining temperature variability under MPI-ECHAM5 model : Simulations and projections”Dept of Atmospheric and Space Science, Pune University, Pune, 2007

· For Ph. D : 3 have registered

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Scientist Profile

Dr.(Smt.) Ashwini Kulkarni

Designation

: Retired Scientist

Phone

:

Fax

:

Email ID

: ashwini[at]tropmet[dot]res[dot]in

Area of Expertise

Academic Records

Research

Awards & Honors

Scientific Careers

Research Highlight

Scientist Profile

Dr.(Smt.) Ashwini Kulkarni

Designation : Retired Scientist

Phone :

Fax :

Email ID : ashwini[at]tropmet[dot]res[dot]in

Area of Expertise

Academic Records

Research

Awards & Honors

Scientific Careers

Research Highlight

Designation

: Retired Scientist

Phone

:

Fax

:

Email ID

: ashwini[at]tropmet[dot]res[dot]in