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November 2018 : Preethi Bhaskar and coauthors honored by IITM
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.
The paper can be accessed from the journal webpage: Click Here
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.
The award citation can be accessed from the
IITM webpage: Click Here