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Krishnan R., Dhara C., Horinouchi T., Gonzales C.K.G., Dimri A.P., Shrestha M.S., Swapna P., Roxy M.K., Son S.W., Ayantika D.C., Cruz F.A.T., Qiao F., Compound weather and climate extremes in the Asian region: Science informed recommendations for policy, Frontiers in Climate, 6:1504475, January 2025, DOI:10.3389/fclim.2024.1504475, 1-19 (3.3)

Bhowmik M., Ayantika D.C., Swapna P., Hazra A., Krishnan R., Advancing effective radius parameterizations in climate models: insights from fundamental theoretical studies and CMIP6 model, Climate Dynamics, 63: 7, January 2025, DOI:10.1007/s00382-024-07500-y, 1-16 (3.8)

Chakraborty, S., A. Sarkar, A. Datye, V. Praveen, P.K. Deb Burman, Y. Shivamurthy, N. Samal, S.K. Saha, M.G. Yadava, R. Chattopadhyay and N. Trivedi (2025) Precipitation isotopes and monsoon dynamics in the core monsoon zone of India. Scientific Reports 15, no. 1 (2025): 6761. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-88640-x, (3.8)

Sabeerali, C. T., V. Praveen, P. Rohini, O.P. Sreejith, and S. Sandeep (2025). Unraveling the challenges of climate models: limited skill in predicting seasonal rainfall in Central India. Climate Dynamics, 63(2), 130. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-025-07621-y (3.8)

Sanap, S. D., Priya, P., Chowdary, J. S., & Pattanaik, D. R. (2025). On the dynamics of ENSO linked contrasting heat wave patterns over the Indian region. Climate Dynamics, 63(4), 1-14. (3.8)

Supriya, O., Mujumdar, M., Swapna, P, Sandeep N. Oceanic influence on large-scale atmospheric convection during co-occurring La Niña and negative IOD events. Meteorol Atmos Phys 137, 30 (2025).https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-025-01079-7 (1.9)

Narayanasetti, Sandeep, Swapna Panickal, Raghavan Krishnan, Milind Mujumdar, Shrayasi Samanta, and Muthalagu Ravichandran. Arctic sea-ice decline causes intense summer monsoon precipitation events over South Asia under greenhouse warming.  Environmental Research Letters 20, no. 5 (2025): 054073. (5.8)

Swapna Panickal, Narayanasetti Sandeep, K. N. Alsumaina, Raghavan Krishnan, Aswale Ajinkya, Marathe Shamal, and O. P. Sreejith. Contrasting tropical precipitation and ecosystem response to Indian Ocean Dipole in a warming climate.  Science of The Total Environment 971 (2025): 179081. (8.2)

Challet, F., Raj, R. P., Chatterjee, S., Herbaut, C., Bonaduce, A. Weakening of the Arctic water outflow from the Barents Sea and consequences on the Fram Strait warming. Journal of Geophysical Research:Oceans, 130, e2024JC021054. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021054 (3.8)

Pathaikara A, Lee M, Min S K, An S I, Roxy M K, Sooraj K P (2025) Human contribution to atmosphere-ocean thermodynamic factors affecting the intense tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea during the post-monsoon season, Weather and Climate Extremes, 48: 100755, DOI:10.1016/j.wace.2025.100755, 1-11 (6.1)

Modi A, Roxy MK, Jain S, Truong CH, Doan Q-V, Jack C, Jevrejeva S, Singh A, Dhara C and Ghosh S (2025) Bridging climate science, policy, and communities: collaborative pathways for climate resilience in the Indo-Pacific. Front. Clim. 7:1538123. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1538123 (3.5)

Martin, P.E., E. Eli Holmes, E. Mayorga, J.K. Ansong, U. Bhaskar, J. Cornejo-Donoso, D. Correa-Chilón, R. Damoah, D. Fierro-Arcos, L. Gómez-Navarro, N. Kumar, A. Lawal-Are, S. Maity, S. Majumder, D. Menemenlis, A. Modi, E. Nyadjro, O. Oghenechovwen, A. Oikonomou, M. Oladipo, M. Peña, D.T. Quaye, Y. Santana-Falcón, BR Smitha, C. Troupin, G. Vagenas, H. Villalobos, and G.L. Wagner. 2025. Harnessing marine open data science for ocean sustainability in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Oceanography 38(1):59–66, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025.121 (3.5)

Kalik V., Krishnan R., Ayantika D.C., Swapna P., Singh Manmeet, Sandeep N., Vellore R., Rao V.B., Understanding the response of tropical overturning circulations to greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing, Environmental Research: Climate, 3, August 2024, (0.0)DOI:10.1088/2752-5295/ad6f3c, 1-20

Ayantika, D. C., Sumit, K. M., Krishnan, R., Vellore, R., & Guhathakurta, P., 2024. A mechanistic investigation into the unusual intensification of rainfall over Western India during the 2019 summer monsoon. Atmospheric Research, 299, 107209 (4.5)

Priya, P., Mujumdar, M., Sanap, S. D., & Krishnan, R. (2024). Response of west pacific subtropical high to northern hemispheric warming: insights from paleo climate models. Climate Dynamics, 62(7), 6123-6139. (3.8)

Stevens, B., Adami, S., Ali, T., Anzt, H., Aslan, Z., Attinger, S., Bäck, J., Baehr, J., Bauer, P., Bernier, N. and Bishop, B., Sandeep N 2024. Earth virtualization engines (EVE). Earth System Science Data, 16(4), pp.2113-2122. (3.5)

Fadnavis S., Sonbawne S.M., Laakso A., Ploeger F., Rap A., Heinold B., Sabin T.P., Müller R., Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7: 101, May 2024, DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00633-1, 1-11 (8.5)

Aswale A M, Sooraj K P, Terray P, Swapna P (2024) Greenhouse warming-induced changes in Indian summer monsoon-ENSO teleconnections as modulated by the North Tropical Atlantic. Climate Dynamics, 62, 10325–10346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-0745 (3.8)

Roxy, M.K., Saranya, J.S., Modi, A., Anusree, A., Cai, W., Resplandy, L., Vialard, J., & Frölicher, T.L. (2024). Chapter 20: Future projections for the tropical Indian Ocean. In Ummenhofer, C.C.,

Hood, R.R. (Eds.), The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system. Elsevier, pp.469–482, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-822698-8.00004-4

V.V.S.S. Sarma & G.V.M. Gupta (Eds.). (2024). White Paper on Improvement of Biogeochemical Models of the Indian Ocean – Gaps, Challenges, Way-forward & Recommendations. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20403.95526

Gokul, T., Vellore, R. K., Ayantika, D. C., Divya, V., Krishnan, R., & Reji, M. J. K., 2024. Low clouds over the subtropical Indian Ocean and sub-seasonal circulation associations with the Indian summer monsoon. Climate Dynamics, 1-38 (3.8)

Jyoti J., Swapna P., Krishnan R., North Indian Ocean sea level rise in the past and future: The role of climate change and variability, Global and Planetary Change, 228: 104205, September 2023, DOI:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104205, 1-13 (3.9)

Roy, C., Rathod, S. D., & Ayantika, D. C., 2023. NOx-induced changes in upper tropospheric O3 during the Asian summer monsoon in present-day and future climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101439,. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101439 (5.2)

Ramarao, M., Ayantika D. C., Krishnan, R., Sanjay, J., Sabin, T., Mujumdar, M., & Singh, K., 2023. Signatures of aerosol-induced decline in evapotranspiration over the Indo-Gangetic Plain during the recent decades. MAUSAM, 74(2), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v74i2.6031 (0.6)

Sooraj, K. P., Ajinkya M. Aswale, P. Swapna, Pascal Terray, and N. S. Sandeep. "Modulations in the Indian summer monsoon–ENSO teleconnections by the North Tropical Atlantic." Climate Dynamics 61, no. 9 (2023): 4603-4622. (3.8)

Pascal Terray, Ligin Joseph, Sooraj K P (2023) Anatomy of the Indian Summer Monsoon and ENSO relationship in a state-of-the-art CGCM: Role of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Climate Dynamics 60, 1559–1582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06397-9. (3.8)

Sagar A., Krishnan R., Sabin T.P., Anthropogenically-forced weakening of the Indian summer monsoon and enhancement of the western North Pacific tropical cyclogenesis, Frontiers in Earth Science, 11: 1149344, March 2023, DOI:10.3389/feart.2023.1149344, 1-18 (2.9)

Modi, A., & Roxy, M. K. (2023). Past Trends and Future Projections of Marine Primary Productivity in the Tropical Indian Ocean. In S. C. Tripathy & A. Singh (Eds.), Dynamics of Planktonic Primary Productivity in the Indian Ocean (pp. 191?206). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34467-1_9

Swapna P., Sreeraj P., Narayanasetti S., Jyoti J., Krishnan R., Prajeesh A.G., Ayantika D.C., Singh Manmeet, Increasing frequency of extremely severe cyclonic storms in the North Indian Ocean by anthropogenic warming and southwest monsoon weakening, Geophysical Research Letters, 49: e2021GL094650, February 2022, DOI:10.1029/2021GL094650, 1-11 (5.6)

Gokul, T., Vellore, R.K., Ayantika D. C., Krishnan, R., Hingmire, D., 2022. Sensitivity to PBL parameterizations on the marine layer cloud simulations in the southern Indian Ocean. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134, 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-022-00889-3 (2.3)

Hingmire, D., Vellore, R., Krishnan, R. Manmeet Singh, A Metya, T Gokul, Ayantika D. C., 2022. Climate change response in wintertime widespread fog conditions over the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Climate Dynamics, 58, 2745–2766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06030-1 (4.9)

Prasad, S., Mishra, P. K., Priya, P., Yousuf, A. R., Andersen, N., Anoop, A., ... & Stebich, M. (2022). Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya. Applied Geochemistry, 137, 105200. (3.8)

N Sandeep, P Swapna, R Krishnan, R Farneti, F Kucharski, Aditi Modi, AG Prajeesh, DC Ayantika, S Manmeet. On the weakening association between South Asian Monsoon and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Climate Dynamics, (2022) doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06224-1 (4.9)

Sreeraj, P., P. Swapna, R. Krishnan, A. G. Nidheesh, and N. Sandeep. "Extreme sea level rise along the Indian Ocean coastline: Observations and 21st century projections." Environmental Research Letters 17, no. 11 (2022): 114016. (6.9)

Prajeesh, A. G., P. Swapna, R. Krishnan, D. C. Ayantika, N. Sandeep, S. Manmeet, M. Aditi, and I. Sandip. "The Indian summer monsoon and Indian Ocean dipole connection in the IITM Earth system model (IITM-ESM)." Climate Dynamics (2022): 1-21. (4.9)

Rahul S Todmal, K Koteswara Rao, Sandip Ingle, Mahendra S Korade (2022) Impact of Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole on rainfall variability over India: trends and interlinkages during 1871–2017, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-022-00936-z (2.3)

Mudra L., Sabin T.P., Krishnan R., Pausata F.S. R., Marti O., Braconnot P., Unravelling the roles of orbital forcing and oceanic conditions on the mid-Holocene boreal summer monsoons, Climate Dynamics, Online, December 2022, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06629-y, 1-20 (4.9)

Modi A., Roxy M. K., Ghosh S., 2022, Gap-Filling of Ocean Color Over the Tropical Indian Ocean Using Monte-Carlo Method, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22087-2, Scientific Reports. (5.0)

Singh, B.B., Krishnan, R., Ayantika, D.C., Vellore, R.K., Sabin, T.P., Kumar, K.R., Brunamonti, S., Hanumanthu, S., Jorge, T., Oelsner, P. and Sonbawne, S., 2021. Linkage of water vapor distribution in the lower stratosphere to organized Asian summer monsoon convection. Climate dynamics, 57(7), pp.1709-1731. (4.4)

Biswas, M.S. and Ayantika, D.C., 2021. Impact of COVID-19 Control Measures on Trace Gases (NO2, HCHO and SO2) and Aerosols over India during Pre-monsoon of 2020. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 21(1), p.200306. (3.1)

Prajeesh A.G., Swapna P., Krishnan R., Ayantika D. C., Sandeep N., Singh Manmeet., Modi A., Ingle S., The Indian summer monsoon and Indian Ocean Dipole connection in the IITM Earth System Model (IITM-ESM), Climate Dynamics, Online, October 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00382-021-05999-z, 1-21 (4.3)

Ayantika D.C., Krishnan R., Singh M., Swapna P., Sandeep N., Prajeesh A.G., Vellore R., Understanding the combined effects of global warming and anthropogenic aerosol forcing on the South Asian monsoon, Climate Dynamics, 56, March 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05551-5 (4.3)

Tebaldi C., Debeire K., Eyring V., ..., Swapna P., … et al., Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6, Earth System Dynamics, 12, DOI:10.5194/esd-12-253-2021, 253–293 (5.5)

Shamal Marathe, Ashok Karumuri, 4 - The El Niño Modoki, Editor(s) Swadhin Kumar Behera, Tropical and Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions, Elsevier, 2021, Pages 93-114,ISBN 9780128181560, httpsdoi.org10.1016B978-0-12-818156-0.00009-5

Marathe, S., Terray, P. & Karumuri, A. Tropical Indian Ocean and ENSO relationships in a changed climate. Clim Dyn (2021). httpsdoi.org10.1007s00382-021-05641-y (4.3)

Shamal, M., Sanjay, J. An observational equatorial Atlantic Ocean constraint on Indian monsoon precipitation projections. Clim Dyn (2021). httpsdoi.org10.1007s00382-021-05703-1 (4.3)

Annalisa Cherchi, Pascal Terray, Satyaban B. Ratna, Syam Sankar, Sooraj K P, Swadhin Behera (2021) Indian Ocean Dipole influence on Indian summer monsoon and ENSO: A review, Chapter 10, In Indian Summer Monsoon, Editors: Jasti S. Chowdary, Anant Parekh and Gnanaseelan C, Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128224021000119

Sooraj K P, Pascal Terray, Annalisa Cherchi (2021) South Asian Summer Monsoon and subtropical deserts, Chapter 15, In Indian Summer Monsoon, Editors: Jasti S. Chowdary, Anant Parekh and Gnanaseelan, Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128224021000156

Terray P., Sooraj K.P., Masson. S., Prodhomme C.,, Anatomy of the Indian Summer Monsoon and ENSO relationships in state-of-the-art CGCMs: role of the tropical Indian Ocean, Climate Dynamics, 56, January 2021,DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05484-z, 329-356 (4.3)

Rahaman H., Srinivasu U., Swapna P., Durgadoo J.V., Griffies S.M., Ravichandran M., Bozec A., Cherchi A., Voldoire A., Sidorenkoi D., Chassignet E.P., Danabasoglu G., Tsujino H., Getzlaff K., Ilicak M., Bentsen M., Long M.C., Fogli P.G., Farneti R., Danilov S., Marsland S.J., Valcke S., Yeager S.G., Wang Q., Assessment of the Indian Ocean mean state and seasonal cycle in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations, Ocean Modelling, 145:101503, January 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.101503, 1-45 (3.5)

Singh M., Krishnan R., Goswami B., Choudhury A.D., Swapna P., Vellore R., Prajeesh A.G., Sandeep N., Venkataraman C., Donner R.V., Marwan N., Kurths J., Fingerprint of volcanic forcing on the ENSO–Indian monsoon coupling, Science Advances, 6: eaba8164, September 2020, DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aba8164 (12.8)

Sandeep N., Swapna P., Krishnan R., Farneti R., Prajeesh A.G., Ayantika D.C., Manmeet S., South Asian monsoon response to weakening of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a warming climate, Climate Dynamics, Online, February 2020, DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05180-y, 1-18 (4.0)

Priya, P., Krishnan, R., & Mujumdar, M. (2020). Uncertainties in river discharge simulations of the upper Indus basin in the Western Himalayas. Journal of Earth System Science, 129(1), 150. (1.1)

Swapna, P., M. Ravichandran, G. Nidheesh, J. Jyoti, N. Sandeep, J. Deepa, and A. S. Unnikrishnan. "Sea-level rise. Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region." Springer (2020): 175-89

Vellore, R.K., Bisht, J.S., Krishnan, R. Umakanth U, et al. (2020) Sub-synoptic circulation variability in the Himalayan extreme precipitation event during June 2013. Meteorol Atmos Phys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-019-00713-5 (1.6)

Sooraj K.P., Terray P., Shilin A., Mujumdar M.,, Dynamics of rainfall extremes over India: A new perspective, International Journal of Climatology, 40, October 2020,DOI: 10.1002/joc.6516, 5223-5245 (3.6)

Sabin TP and Olivier Pauluis, 2020, The South Asian Monsoon Circulation in Moist Isentropic coordinates, Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0637.1 (4.8)

Chaitri R, Fadnavis S and TP Sabin, 2020: The stratospheric ozone rich cold intrusion during El-Niño over the Indian region: implication during the Indian summer monsoon, International journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6680 (3.6)

Roxy M. K., C. Gnanaseelan, A. Parekh, J. S. Chowdary, S. Singh, A. Modi, R. Kakatkar, S. Mohapatra, C. Dhara, S. C. Shenoi, M. Rajeevan (2020), Indian Ocean warming, in Krishnan et al. (eds.), Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region, Springer, Singapore, doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-4327-2_10, Published