आईआईटीएम
IITM

Achievements and Distinctions:

• Expert panel member for setting question paper and evaluation of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) paper for Forecaster Training Course (FTC) batch 198, WMO-Meteorological Training Institute (MTI), Pune (2024)
• Convenor, Local organizing committee, Annual Monsoon E-Workshop (AMW 2019 & 2020) and National E-Symposium on “Cloud and Precipitation Processes” organized by IMSP (2020)
• Joint Secreatary, Executive Council (EC), India Meteorological Society Pune Chapter (IMSP) (2020-2022)
• Qualified Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) 2012 with all India Rank 103 in Physics.
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012 with all India Rank 73 in Physics.

Reviewer of Journals:

3. Geophysical Research Letters

2. "Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (MAAP)

1. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS)

Invited and Contributory Talks:

3. Delivered a lecture entitled “Energetics approach to understand monsoon ISO processes” at the RAC meeting, 5 February 2019, IITM, Pune

2. Delivered a lecture entitled “energy conversion processes during organization and intensification of BSISO based on observation and reanalysis data” in Intromet-2017 held at SAC, Ahmedabad, 7-10 Nov, 2017.

1. Delivered a talk entitled “Energy conversion processes during organization and intensification of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISOs)” in the Workshop "Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean 2017" held in Hamburg, Germany from 3 to 5 May 2017.

Poster Presentations:

4.  Presented poster entitled “Performance of GEFS T574 and GFS T1534 during South-west Monsoon season of 2016 and during post monsoon cyclone” during Research Advisory Committee meeting, 19-20 January, 2017 held at IITM, Pune.

3.  Presented poster entitled “Atmospheric internal processes and circulation-heating feedback during organization of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO) based on observation and reanalyses data” during TROPMET 2016 National Symposium on Tropical Meteorology: Climate Change and Coastal Vulnerability, 18 - 21 December, 2016 held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

2. Presented poster entitled “Possible mechanism behind organization and intensification of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO) based on TRMM and reanalyses data” during CLIVAR Open Science Conference 2016, 19-23 September, Qingdao, China.

1. Presented a poster entitled “A study to understand the mechanism behind organization of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation” during  IMSP Annual Monsoon Workshop – 2015, February 23-24, 2016 held at IITM, Pune 

Service to the institute:

• Served as a member of organizing committee for several national and international conferences/events/meetings/workshops, e.g., Convenor, LOC for Annual Monsoon Workshop 2020, International Workshop on Prediction skill of extreme Precipitation events and tropical cyclones: Present status and future Prospect (IP4) & Annual Climate Change Workshop 2019, International workshop on Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions and Prediction of Monsoon weather EXtremes (STIPMEX), 2024 etc.
• Served as a member of examination/evaluation committee for various openings at IITM

Membership and Recognition:  

• Member, Young Earth System Scientists community

• Life Member, India Meteorological Society

Additional qualifications:

GATE (2012)      All India Rank- 73     Physics

JEST  (2012)     All India Rank- 103    Physics

ResearchGate:          https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sahadat_Sarkar

Google Scholar:        https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GkohFf8AAAAJ

ORCID :                     https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0417-0678

Refereed Journals

2024

10. D. L. Suhas , S. Vishnu , Salil Goyal , Sahadat Sarkar , Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos., Automated operational forecasting of monsoon low pressure systems, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0067.1

2022

9. Sarkar, S., Mukhopadhyay, P. & Dutta, S. Energy conversion processes associated with the transition of low-pressure area to monsoon depression during Indian summer monsoon: a study to evaluate GFS model fidelity. Meteorol Atmos Phys 134, 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-021-00838-6

2021

8. 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
9. 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
10. 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 for extreme rain events in Kerala, India, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 2021, 400-401 (Nowcast: Papers of Note) https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0162.1

2020

5. Sarkar S., Mukhopadhyay P., Dutta S., Krishna R.P.M., Kanase R., Prasad V.S., Deshpande M.S., GFS model fidelity in capturing the transition of low pressure area to monsoon depression, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, Online, March 2021, DOI:10.1002/qj.4024, 1-35

2019

4. Suryachandra A. Rao; B N Goswami; A K Sahai; E N Rajagopal; P. Mukhopadhyay; M Rajeevan; S Nayak; LS Rathore; SSC Shenoi; KJ Ramesh; Ravi S Nanjundiah; M Ravichandran; AK Mitra; D. S. Pai; SKR Bhowmik; Anupam Hazra; S Mahapatra; S K Saha; H S Chaudhari; S Joseph; Pentakota Sreenivas; Samir Pokhrel; Prasanth A Pillai; Rajib Chattopadhay; Medha Deshpande; RPM Krishna; Renu Siddharth; V S Prasad; Abhilash S; S Panickal; Krishnan R; S Kumar; DA Ramu; S S Reddy; Anika Arora; T Goswami; Archana Rai; Srivastava; Maheswar Pradhan; S Tirkey; M Ganai; Raju Mandal; Avijit Dey; S Sarkar ; Shilpa Malviya; Ashish Dhakate; Kiran Salunke; Parvinder Maini (2019): Monsoon Mission : A targeted activity to improve monsoon prediction across scales, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0330.1] Online version Website: [https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0330.1] 
5. P Mukhopadhyay ,V S Prasad,R Phani Murali Krishna, Medha Deshpande,Malay Ganai, Snehlata Tirkey, Sahadat Sarkar ,Tanmoy Goswami,C J Johny, Kumar Roy, M Mahakur,V R Durai and 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, J. Earth Syst. Sci., 128:155, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-019-1186-6 

2018

2. Sarkar S., Mukhopadhyay P., Phani M.K.R., Dutta S., 2018: Coupled model fidelity in capturing atmospheric internal processes during organization and intensification of boreal summer intra-seasonal oscillation. International Journal of Climatology. 38, November 2018, DOI:10.1002/joc.5736, 5339–5353

2017

1. Sarkar Sahadat, Mukhopadhyay, P. and Dutta Somenath. (2017), Atmospheric dynamics and internal processes during organization and intensification of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO) based on TRMM and reanalyses data. International Journal of  Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.5017

Technical Report:

1. Medha Deshpande, C.J. Johny, Radhika Kanase, Snehlata Tirkey, Sahadat Sarkar, Tanmoy Goswami, Kumar Roy, Malay Ganai, R. Phani Murali Krishna, V.S. Prasad, P. Mukhopadhyay, V.R. Durai, Ravi S. Nanjundiah and M. Rajeevan (2020): Implementation of Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) at 12km Resolution, IITM Technical Report; Report No. TR-6. https://www.tropmet.res.in/~lip/Publication/Technical-Reports/TR-6.pdf 

Research Reports:

1. P. Mukhopadhyay, V.S. Prasad, R. Phani Murali Krishna, Medha Deshpande,Malay Ganai, Snehlata Tirkey, Sahadat Sarkar , Tanmoy Goswami, C.J. Johny, Kumar Roy, M. Mahakur, V.R. Durai and M. Rajeevan (2019): Performance of Very High Resolution Global Forecast System Model (GFS-T1534) at 12.5km over Indian Region during 2016-2017 Monsoon Seasons, IITM Research Report,Research Report No. RR-146, ESSO/IITM/MM/SR/02(2019)/197. https://www.tropmet.res.in/~lip/Publication/RR-pdf/RR_146.pdf

Conference Proceedings

1. Sahadat Sarkar, P. Mukhopadhyay and Somenath Dutta,  A Study to understand the mechanism behind organization of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation, Bulletin of The Indian Meteorological Society Pune Chapter,Page-18, Vol. 17, February 2016

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