A paper authored by three CCCR-IITM scientists, which highlighted the recent trends and tele-connections among South and East Asian summer monsoons in a warming environment, has won the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology's Thirtieth Annual Silver Jubilee Award for the best research paper published in peer reviewed journal for the year 2017. The paper, "Recent trends and tele-connections among South and East Asian summer monsoons in a warming environment" was published in the journal Climate Dynamics in April 2017.

Coauthors Preethi Bhaskar, Milind Mujumdar, R. H. Kripalani, A. Prabhu, and R. Krishnan, explored the recent trends, variations and teleconnections between two Asian monsoon sub-systems viz., the South Asian and the East Asian monsoons. The findings based on century long precipitation records depict a dipole-type configuration with a north-deficit and south-excess pattern over both the sub-systems. The trends in the spatial distribution of mean sea level pressure and lower tropospheric winds during the post-1970s indicate a westward shift of summertime large-scale circulation features, such as the South Asian summer monsoon trough and the North Pacific Subtropical High, which are dynamically consistent with the recent trends in summer monsoon precipitation over the Asian monsoon sub-systems.

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The authors received the award on the occasion of the 57th Foundation day celebrations at IITM on 17 November 2018. The Governing Council instituted the Annual Silver Jubilee Award for the best research contribution in the form of published paper in standard research journal by the Institute's scientist(s) to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the Institute.