आईआईटीएम
IITM

1. Recognition: 

• Recognized as Ph.D. Guide by Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) for the Period 2019-2028.
• Adjunct Professor of the Department of Atmospheric & Space Sciences, SPPU for the academic year 2020-21.

2. Academic Activities:

• Teaching General Circulation of Atmosphere course (Monsoon and variability mainly) for PhD course work of IITM PhD students
• Atmospheric Thermodynamics course for MSc students at SP Pune University during 2020-2021

Monograph

1. Prasanth A Pillai and K Mohankumar: Interannual variability of Indian summer monsoon: Role of TBO. VDM Verlag Publishers , 2010, ISBN 978-3-639-19994-9

Referred Journals

1. Prasanth A Pillai, Dhakathe A.R., Kiran V.G (2023). Different role of spring season Atlantic SST anomalies in Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) variability before and after early 2000 Climate Dynamics, Online (IF:4.901)
2. Prasanth A Pillai and Ashish R Dhakathe (2022) : Role of Atlantic SST anomalies in the recent ENSO predictability change in NMME model hindcasts. Clim Dyn 59, 3683–3699 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06290-5. (Dec 2022). Impact Factor (IF): 4.901
3. Prasanth A Pillai, Rao Suryachandra A., Gangadharan K.V., Pradhan M., Srivastava Ankur, Jain D.K (2022). Impact of reduced ENSO variability and amplitude on ISMRprediction in the long-lead forecasts of monsoon mission CFS. International Journal of Climatology, 42, DOI:10.1002/joc.7809, 9166-9181. (December 2022). IF: 3.651.
4. Attada R., Ehsan M.A., Prasanth A Pillai (2022). Evaluation of Potential Predictability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in ECMWF's Fifth-Generation Seasonal Forecast System(SEAS5). Pure and Applied Geophysics, 179, DOI:10.1007/s00024-022-03184-9, 4639-4655 (December 2022). IF:2.64
5. Dandi R.A., Dhakate A.R., Prasanth A Pillai, Rambabu G., Sreenivas P., Saikrishna T.S (2022). Assessment of extreme seasonal rainfall over India in current seasonal coupled models during the recent period. Climate Dynamics, Online, November 2022, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06599-1, 1-27 (IF:4.901).
6. Rohini P., Rajeevan M., Rao Suryachandra A., Pillai P.A., Assessment of hot weather seasonal temperatures over India using Monsoon Mission Coupled Forecasting System hindcasts, International Journal of Climatology, Online, September 2022, DOI:10.1002/joc.7866, 1-13
7. Das Renu S., Rao Suryachandra A., Pillai P.A., Srivastava Ankur, Pradhan M., Dandi R.A., Why coupled general circulation models overestimate the ENSO and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) relationship?, Climate Dynamics, 59, November 2022, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06253-w, 2995–3011
8. Dhakate, A.R., Prasanth A Pillai (2022). Seasonal extreme rainfall over Indian monsoon region: a moisture budget analysis to distinguish the role of ENSO and non-ENSO forcing. Theor Appl Climatol 148, 1603–1613. https:// doi.org/10.1007/ s00704-022-04016 -5. (May 2022, was online in 2022 report). IF:3.409
9. Pradhan M., Rao Suryachandra A., Doi T., Pillai P.A., Srivastava Ankur, Behera S., Comparison of MMCFS and SINTEX-F2 for seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall, International Journal of Climatology, 41, November 2021, DOI:10.1002/joc.7169, 6084-6108
10. Pillai P.A., Rao Suryachandra A., Srivastava Ankur, Dandi R.A., Pradhan M., Das Renu S., Impact of the tropical Pacific SST biases on the simulation and prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in CFSv2, ECMWF-System4, and NMME models, Climate Dynamics, 56, March 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05555-1, 1699-1715
11. Pillai P.A., Ramu D.A., Nai R.C., Recent changes in the major modes of Asian summer monsoon rainfall: influence of ENSO-IOD relationship, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 143, February 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00704-020-03454-3, 869-881
12. Srivastava Ankur, Rao Suryachandra A., Pradhan M., Pillai P.A., Prasad V.S., Gain of one-month lead time in seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon prediction: comparison of initialization strategies, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 143, February 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00704-020-03470-3, 1083–1096
13. Dandi A.R., Pillai P.A., Chowdary J.S., Srinivas D., Srinivas G., Koteswara Rao K., Nageswararao M.M., Inter-annual variability and skill of tropical rainfall and SST in APCC seasonal forecast models, Climate Dynamics, 56, January 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05487-w, 439-456
14. Mandke S.K., Prasanth A Pillai, Sahai A.K (2020). Simulation of monsoon intra‐seasonal oscillations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory models from Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project integrations of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5. International Journal of Climatology, 40, November 2020, DOI: 10.1002/joc.6536, 5574-5589
15. Ramu A. Dandi, Jasti S. Chowdary, Prasanth A. Pillai, Sradhara Sidhan N. S., Koteswararao K, Ramakrishna S.S.V.S. (2020): Impact of El Niño Modoki on Indian summer monsoon rainfall: Role of western north Pacific circulation in observations and CMIP5 models. International Journal of Climatology, 40, March 2020, DOI:10.1002/joc.6322, 2117-2133
16. Devika M.V., Pillai P.A., Recent changes in the trend, prominent modes, and the interannual variability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall centered on the early twenty-first century, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 139, January 2020, DOI:10.1007/s00704-019-03011-7, 815–824
17. Krishna R.P.M., Rao S.A., Srivastava A., Kottu H.P., Pradhan M., Pillai P., Dandi R.A., Sabeerali C.T., Impact of convective parameterization on the seasonal prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon, Climate Dynamics, 53, November 2019, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-04921-y, 6227-6243
18. Pillai P.A., Nair R.C., Vidhya C.V., Recent changes in the prominent modes of Indian Ocean dipole in response to the tropical Pacific Ocean SST patterns, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 138, October 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s00704-019-02875-z, 941-951
19. Rao S.A., Goswami B.N., Sahai A.K., Rajagopal E.N., Mukhopadhyay P., Rajeevan M., Nayak S., Rathore L.S., Shenoi S.S.C., Ramesh K.J., Nanjundiah R.S., Ravichandran M., Mitra A.K., Pai D.S., Bhowmik S.K.R., Hazra A., Mahapatra S., Saha S.K., Chaudhari H.S., Joseph S., Pentakota S., Pokhrel S., Pillai P.A., Chattopadhay R., Deshpande M., Krishna R.P.M., Siddharth Renu, Prasad V.S., Abhilash S., Pani, 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
20. Rao Suryachandra A., Pillai P.A., Pradhan M., Srivastava A., Seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon in India: The past, the present and the future, Mausam, 70, April 2019, 265-276
21. Arora A., Rao Suryachandra A., Pillai P., Dhakate A., Salunke K., Srivastava A., Assessment of prediction skill in equatorial Pacific Ocean in high resolution model of CFS, Climate Dynamics, 51, November 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00382-018-4084-8, 3389–3403
22. Pillai P.A., Rao S.A., Das R.S., Salunke K., Dhakate A., Potential predictability and actual skill of Boreal Summer Tropical SST and Indian summer monsoon rainfall in CFSv2-T382: Role of initial SST and teleconnections, Climate Dynamics, 51, July 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00382-017-3936-y, 493-510
23. Pillai P.A., Rao S.A., Ramu D.A., Pradhan M., George G., Seasonal prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in NMME models and monsoon mission CFSv2, International Journal of Climatology, 38, April 2018, DOI:10.1002/joc.5413, e847-e861
24. Pillai P.A., Aher V.R., Role of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation and its interannual variability in simulation of seasonal mean in CFSv2, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 131, January 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00704-016-2006-4, 745-760
25. Pillai P.A., Rao S.A., George G., Rao D.N., Mahapatra S., Rajeevan M., Dhakate A., Salunke K., How distinct are the two flavors of El Niño in retrospective forecasts of Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2)?, Climate Dynamics, 48, June 2017, DOI:10.1007/s00382-016-3305-2, 3829-3854
26. Chowdary J.S., Harsha H.S., Gnanaseelan C., Srinivas G., Parekh A., Pillai P., Naidu C.V., Indian summer monsoon rainfall variability in response to differences in the decay phase of El Niño, Climate Dynamics, 48, April 2017, DOI:10.1007/s00382-016-3233-1, 2707-2727
27. Ramu D.A., Suryachadra A. Rao, Pillai P., Pradhan M., George G., Nagarguna Rao D., Mahapatra S., Pai D.S., Rajeevan M., Prediction of seasonal summer monsoon rainfall over homogenous regions of India using dynamical prediction system, Journal of Hydrology, 546, March 2017, DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.010, 103–112
28. Pai D.S., Suryachandra A. Rao, Senroy S., Pradhan M., Pillai P.A., Rajeevan M., Performance of the operational and experimental long-range forecasts for the 2015 southwest monsoon rainfall, Current Science, 112, January 2017, DOI:10.18520/cs/v112/i01/68-75, 68-75
29. Ravi Kumar K., Valsala V., Tiwari Y.K., Revadekar J.V., Pillai P., Prakash, Chakraborty S., Murtugudde R., Intra-seasonal variability of atmospheric CO2 concentrations over India during summer monsoons, Atmospheric Environment, 142, October 2016, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.07.023, 229-237
30. Pillai P.A., Sahai A.K., Moisture dynamics of the northward and eastward propagating boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations: possible role of tropical Indo-west Pacific SST and circulation, Climate Dynamics, 47, August 2016, 1335–1350
31. Prasanth A Pillai  and J.S Chowdary (2016): Indian summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation associated with the developing and decaying phase of El Niño. International journal of climatology 36, 1846-1862
32. Chakravorty S., Gnanaseelan C., Prasanth A Pillai (2016): Combined influence of remote and local SST forcing on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall variability. Climate Dynamics, online, January 2016
33. Susmitha Joseph, A. K Sahai, S. Sharmila, S. Abhilash, N. Borah, R. Chattopadhyay, Prasanth A Pillai, M. Rajeevan and Arun Kumar (2015): North Indian heavy rainfall event during June 2013: diagnostics and extended range predicition. Climate Dynamics 44: 2049-2065
34. Prasanth A Pillai and A. K Sahai (2015): Moisture Dynamics of Northward and eastward propagation of boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation in the Indian Ocean: Possible role of tropical Indo-west Pacific SST and circulation. Climate dynamics, online Nov 2015
35. Prasanth A Pillai and A.K Sahai (2014). Moist Dynamics of active/break cycle of Indian summer monsoon rainfall from NCEPR2 and MERRA reanalysis. International journal of climatology 34: 1429-1444
36. Vinu Valsala, Yogesh Tiwari, Prasanth A Pillai,  Mathew Roxy,   Shamil Maksyutov and Raghu Murtugudde  (2013):  Intraseasonal variability of terrestrial biospheric CO₂ fluxes over India during summer monsoons. JGR-Biogiosciences, 118, 752-769
37. A. K. Sahai , S. Sharmila, S. Abhilash, R. Chattopadhyay, N. Borah, R. P. M. Krishna, S. Joseph, M. Roxy, S. De, S. Pattnaik and Prasanth . A. Pillai (2013): Simulation and extended range prediction of monsoon intra-seasonal oscillations in NCEP/GFS version 2 framework. Current Science, 104, May 2013, 1394-1408
38. Sharmila S, Prasanth A Pillai, S. Jospeh, M. Roxy, R. P.M. Krishna, R. Chadopathy, A.K Sahai, Abhilash, and B.N Goswami (2013) : Role of Ocean-atmosphere interaction on northward propagation of Indian summer monsoon intarseasonal oscillations, Climate dymaics 41 , 1651-1669
39. Annamalai H, Jan Hafner, Sooraj. K.P, Prasanth A Pillai (2012):  Global warming shifts the monsoon circulation, drying south Asia.  Journal of climate , 26, 2701-2718
40. Prasanth A Pillai and H. Annamalai (2011) : Moist Dynamics of Severe Monsoons over South Asia: Role of the Tropical SST, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-056.1, in press
41. Prasanth A Pillai and K Mohankumar (2010): Individual and combined influence of El Ni˜no–SouthernOscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole on the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc.136: 297–304. DOI:10.1002/qj.579
42. Prasanth A Pillai and K Mohankumar (2010): Effect of late 1970’s climate shift on tropospheric biennial oscillation – role of local Indian Ocean processes on Asian summer monsoon. Int. J. Climatol. 30: 509–521
43. Prasanth A Pillai and K Mohankumar (2009): Role of TBO and ENSO scale Ocean-Atmosphere interaction in the Indo-Pacific region on Asian summer monsoon variability. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. vol. 97; pp. 99-108
44. Mohankumar, K., and Prasanth A Pillai ( 2008): Stratosphere-Troposphere interaction associated with Biennial oscillation of Indian summer monsoon. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 77, 764–773. DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2007.12.001.
45. Prasanth A   Pillai and K. Mohankumar (2008): Local Hadley circulation over Asian monsoon region associated with Tropospheric biennial oscillation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology,91,171–179. DOI 10.1007/s00704-007-0305-5.
46. Prasanth A Pillai, and K. Mohankumar (2007): Tropospheric biennial oscillation of Indian summer monsoon with and without El-nino southern oscillation. International Journal of Climatology,  27 (15), 2095–2101.

PhD -2 main Gide, 2 co-guide

M. Tech./M.Sc/  students guided: 09