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Publications

Note: Co-authors denoted by light blue color worked with Dr. S. K. Mishra as students/research-associates at the time of publications.

Evaluation of the two PBL Schemes in the NCAR-CAM5 Model over India and its Adjoining Regions: A Sensitivity to Critical Bulk Richardson Number

Namdev, P., M. Sharan, S. K. Mishra

International Journal of Climatology, 2026 (Accepted)

Advancing Climate Services in South Asia: The SARCI Framework for Actionable Climate Information and Regional Capacity Building

Bhuyan, D. P., P. Upadhayaya,R. Pathak, P. Namdev, P. Salunke, A. Anand, A. D. Suresh, A. Arora, S. K. Baraik, S. Jain, R. S. Parihar, A. Dwivedi, S. Sahany, M. Sharan, S. K. Dash, J. T. Fasullo, S. K. Behera, J. Tribbia, and S. K. Mishra

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2026

To Solve North India’s Air Crisis, Look Beyond Stubble and Fireworks

Mishra, S. K., P. Upadhayaya, A. Arora, A. J. Vinod, N. Jayan, and A. Dwivedi

The India Forum, 2025

Formulation of a dynamic convective adjustment time-scale in the CESM1.2 and its influence on the Indian summer monsoon simulations

Pathak, R., S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, and J. Wang

Scientific Reports, 15, 29264, 2025

Optimizing WRF-Hydro Calibration in the Himalayan Basin: Precipitation Influence and Parameter Sensitivity Analysis

Dixit, A., S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, and F. Lehner

Journal of Hydrometeorology, 26(3), 345-363, 2025

Implementation of various non-linear similarity functions for stable atmospheric surface layer in the WRF modeling system: An evaluation for three contrasting nights in CASES-99 dataset

Namdev, P., M. Sharan, and S. K. Mishra

Atmospheric Research, 315, 107825, 2024

Implications of CMIP6 Models‐Based Climate Biases and Runoff Sensitivity on Runoff Projection Uncertainties Over Central India

Tyagi, S., S. Sahany, D. Saraswat, S. K. Mishra, A. Dubey, and D. Niyogi

International Journal of Climatology, 44(16), 5727-5744, 2024

Attributing the Recent Weakening of the South Asian Subtropical Westerlies

Upadhayaya P., S. K. Mishra, J. T. Fasullo, and In-Sik Kang

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 283, 2024

An Updated Parameterization of the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Modeling System

Namdev, P., M. Sharan, P. Shrivastava, and S. K. Mishra

Geoscientific Model Development, 17(22), 8093-8114, 2024

On the Extent of Applicability of Various Non-Linear Similarity Functions for Computation of Surface Fluxes Under Stable Conditions in Numerical Models

Namdev, P., M. Sharan, and S. K. Mishra

Boundary Layer Meteorology, 190, 29, 2024

Assessing Regional-Scale Heterogeneity in Blue-Green Water Availability under the 1.5° C Global Warming Scenario

Tyagi, S., S. Sahany, D. Saraswat, S. K. Mishra, A. Dubey, and D. Niyogi

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 63(4), 553-574, 2024

Artificial intelligence predicts normal summer monsoon rainfall for India in 2023

Narang, U., K. Juneja, P. Upadhayaya, P. Salunke, T. Chakraborty, S. K. Behera, S. K. Mishra, and A. D. Suresh

Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1495, 2024

An Update to WRF Surface Layer Parameterization over an Indian Region

Namdev, P., P. Srivastava, M. Sharan, and S. K. Mishra

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 105, 101414, 2024

Modeling the Climate Change Impact on Hydroclimate Fluxes over the Beas Basin using a High-Resolution Glacier-Atmosphere-Hydrology Coupled Setup

Dixit, A., S. Sahany, and S. K. Mishra

Journal of Hydrology, 627, 130219, 2023

A Need for Actionable Climate Projections Across the Global South

Mishra, S. K., P. Upadhayaya, J. T. Fasullo, N. P. Keshri, P. Salunke, A. Ghosh, A. B. Sainudeen, and In-Sik Kang

Nature Climate Change, 13(9), 883-886, 2023

Indian Summer Monsoon Simulations in Successive Generations of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model

Kumar, R., R. Pathak, S. Sahany, and S. K. Mishra

Theoretical and Applied Climatologys, 153(3), 977-992, 2023

Seasonal Dependent Suitability of Physical Parametrizations to Simulate Precipitation over the Himalayan Headwater

Dixit, A., S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, and M. D. S. Mesquita

Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4756, 2023

Future Projections of Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation for India

Salunke, P., N. Prasad, S. K. Mishra, and S. K. Dash

Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1069994, 2023

Impact of the Similarity Functions of Surface Layer Parameterization in a Climate Model over the Indian Region

Namdev, P., M. Sharan, and S. K. Mishra

Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 149(750), 152-170, 2022

Flash Drought: Review of Concept, Prediction and the Potential for Machine Learning, Deep Learning Methods

Tyagi, S., X. Zhang, D. Saraswat, S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, and D. Niyogi

Earth's Future, 10(11), e2022EF002723, 2022

The Spatio-Temporal Onset Characteristics of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Their Relationship with Climate Indices

Saini, A., N. Sahu, S. K. Mishra, S. Jain, S. Behera, and S. K. Dash

Atmosphere, 13, 1581, 2022

Potential Future Malaria Transmission due to Climate Change in Odisha, India

Parihar, R. S., P. K. Bal, A. Saini, S. K. Mishra, and A. Thapliyal

Scientific Reports, 12(1), 9048, 2022

Potential Effects of the Projected Antarctic Sea-Ice Loss on the Climate System

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, P. Salunke, H. Ozawa, and A. Dewan

Climate Dynamics, 60(1-2), 589-601, 2022

An Investigation into the Role of Synoptic Conditions on Central African Precipitation Variability

Zebaze S., R. Pathak, A. J. K. Mbienda, W. M. Pokam, P. Salunke, A. Anand, D. A. Vondou, A. Lenouo, and S. K. Mishra

Acta Geophysica, 70(2), 943-962, 2022

Future Projections of Temperature and Precipitation for Antarctica

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, P. Salunke, and A. Dewan

Environmental Research Letters, 17, 014029, 2022

Energy and entropy generation analysis of hydrological cycle in tropical regions

Mishra, S., B. N. Mahapatra, S. S. Sahoo, A. Rout, and S. K. Mishra

International Journal of Exergy, 35(3), 327-341, 2021

Impact of the Antarctic Topography on Meridional Energy Transport and its Consequential Effect in the Monsoon Circulation

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, J. Fasullo, and A. Dewan

Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 147(739), 3286-3296, 2021

Impact of Stochastic Entrainment in the NCAR CAM Deep Convection Parameterization on the Simulation of South Asian Summer Monsoon

Pathak, R., S. Sahany, and S. K. Mishra

Climate Dynamics, 57, 3365–3384, 2021

Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Inference of Cloud Parameterization in the NCAR Single Column Community Atmosphere Model (SCAM6)

Pathak, R., H. P. Dasari, S. El Mhotar, A. Subramanian, S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, O. Kino, and I. Hoteit

Frontiers in Climate, 3, 670740, 2021

Response of the Atmosphere to Orographic Forcings: Insight from Idealised Simulations

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, A. Dewan, A. Anand, and In-Sik Kang

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78(9), 2691-2708, 2021

Response of the Indian summer monsoon to global warming, solar geoengineering and its termination

Bhowmick, M., S. K. Mishra, B. Kravitz, S. Sahany, and P. Salunke

Scientific Reports, 11, 9791, 2021

Long-term variability of Sea Surface Temperature in the Tropical Indian Ocean in relation to climate change and variability

Mohan, S., S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, and S. Behera

Global and Planetary Change, 199, 103436, 2021

Influence of the height of Antarctic ice sheet on its climate

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, A. Dewan, G. Dogra, and H. Ozawa

Polar Science, 2021

A New Graphical Method to Diagnose the Impacts of Model Changes on Climate Sensitivity

Jain, S., R. Chhin, R. M. Doherty, S. K. Mishra, and S. Yoden

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 99(2), 437-448, 2021

Effects of the Antarctic Elevation on the Atmospheric Circulation

Tewari, K., S. K. Mishra, A. Dewan, and H. Ozawa

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 143, 1487-1499, 2021

Historical and Projected Low-Frequency Variability in the Somali Jet and Indian Summer Monsoon

Jain, S., S. K. Mishra, A. Anand, P. Salunke, and J. T. Fasullo

Climate Dynamics, 56, 749-765, 2020

Impact of Climate Change on Indian Economy

Mishra, S. K., S. Sahany, S. Joshi, S. K. Dash, A. Sharma, and A. Bhalla

2020

Uncertainty Quantification Based Cloud Parameterization Sensitivity Analysis in the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model

Pathak, R., S. Sahany, and S. K. Mishra

Scientific Reports, 10, 17499, 2020

Current Chance of Unprecedented Monsoon Rainfall over India using Dynamical Ensemble Simulations

Jain, S., A. Scaife, N. Dunstone, D. Smith, and S. K. Mishra

Environmental Research Letters, 15, 9, 2020

Numerical Modeling of the Dynamics of Malaria Transmission in a Highly Endemic Region of India

Singh, R., P. K. Bal, V. Kumar, S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, P. Salunke, S. Dash, and R. C. Dhiman

Scientific Reports, 9(1), 11903, 2019

Precipitation Biases in CMIP5 Models over the South Asian Region

Pathak, R., S. Sahany, S. K. Mishra, and S. K. Dash

Scientific Reports, 9(1), 9589, 2019

Past and Future Climate Change over the Himalaya–Tibetan Highland: Inferences from APHRODITE and NEX-GDDP Data

Mishra, S. K., S. Jain, P. Salunke, and S. Sahany

Climatic Change, 156, 315–322, 2019

Advantage of NEX-GDDP over CMIP5 and CORDEX Data: Indian Summer Monsoon

Jain, S., P. Salunke, S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, and N. Choudhary

Atmospheric Research, 228, 152–160, 2019

Assessment of CMIP5 Multimodel Mean for the Historical Climate of Africa

Sinclaire, Z., S. Jain, P. Salunke, S. Shafiq, and S. K. Mishra

Atmospheric Science Letters, 20, e926, 2019

Projected Precipitation Changes over the South Asian Region for Every 0.5°C Increase in Global Warming

Bhowmick, M., S. Sahany, and S. K. Mishra

Environmental Research Letters, 14(5), 054005, 2019

Response of Indian Monsoon to Increase of Resolution in NCAR-CAM5

Anand, A., M. Bhowmick, S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, and C. V. Reddy Telukuntla

Atmospheric Research, 221, 12–26, 2019

Effects of Global Warming and Solar Geoengineering on Precipitation Seasonality

Bal, P. K., R. Pathak, S. K. Mishra, and S. Sahany

Environmental Research Letters, 14(3), 034011, 2019

Performance of CMIP5 Models for Indian Summer-Monsoon Precipitation and Temperature

Jain, S., P. Salunke, S. K. Mishra, and S. Sahany

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137, 1429–1447, 2018

Fidelity of CMIP5 Multi Model Mean in Assessing Indian Monsoon Simulations

Mishra, S. K., S. Sahany, P. Salunke, In-Sik Kang, and S. Jain

npj Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, 1(1), 39, 2018

Performance of the CMIP5 Models in the Simulation of the Himalaya–Tibetan Plateau Monsoon

Salunke, P., S. Jain, and S. K. Mishra

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137(1–2), 909–928, 2018

Predictability Assessment of Northeast Monsoon Rainfall in India Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly through Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques

Dash, Y., S. K. Mishra, and B. K. Panigrahi

Environmetrics, e2533, 2018

Importance of the Resolution of Surface Topography Vis-à-Vis Atmospheric and Surface Processes in the Simulation of the Boreal Summer Climate of Himalaya–Tibet Highland

Jain, S., S. K. Mishra, P. Salunke, and S. Sahany

Climate Dynamics, 52, 4735–4748, 2018

Spatio-Temporal Variability of Seasonality of Rainfall over India

Sahany, S., S. K. Mishra, R. Pathak, and B. Rajagopalan

Geophysical Research Letters, 45(14), 7140–7147, 2018

Historical Simulations and Climate Change Projections over India by NCAR CCSM4: CMIP5 vs. NEX-GDDP

Sahany, S., S. K. Mishra, and P. Salunke

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 135, 1423–1433, 2018

Relative Role of Sea Surface Temperature and Snow on Indian Summer Monsoon Seasonal Simulation using a GCM

Karri, S., S. K. Dash, S. K. Panda, M. Paliwal, S. K. Mishra, and Jai-Ho Oh

Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11, 116, 2018

Rainfall Prediction for the Kerala State of India Using Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Dash, Y., S. K. Mishra, and B. K. Panigrahi

Computers and Electrical Engineering, 70, 66–73, 2018

Indian Summer Monsoon Simulations: Usefulness of Increasing Horizontal Resolution, Manual Tuning, and Semi-Automatic Tuning in Reducing Present-Day Model Biases

Anand, A., S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, M. Bhowmick, J. S. Rawat, and S. K. Dash

Scientific Reports, 8(1), 3522, 2018

Importance of the Resolution of Surface Topography in Indian Monsoon Simulation

Mishra, S. K., A. Anand, J. T. Fasullo, and S. Bhagat

Journal of Climate, 31, 4879–4898, 2018

CMIP5 vs. CORDEX over the Indian Region: How Much Do We Benefit from Dynamical Downscaling?

Mishra, S. K., S. Sahany, and P. Salunke

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 133(3–4), 1133–1141, 2017

Combating Air Pollution in North India: The Path Forward

Doraiswamy, P., R. K. M. Jayanty, S. T. Rao, M. Mohan, S. Dey, D. Ganguly, S. K. Mishra, R. Jain, M. Azua, and A. Gideon

EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers, A&WMA, 2017

Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Prediction: A Comparison of Iterative and Non-Iterative Approaches

Dash, Y., S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, and B. K. Panigrahi

Applied Soft Computing, 70, 1122–1134, 2017

Climate Modeling in India: Present Status and Way Forward

Dash, S. K., S. K. Mishra, S. Sahany, V. Venugopal, K. Ashok, and A. Gupta

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, ES183–ES188, 2017

Linkages between MJO and Summer Monsoon Rainfall over India and Surrounding Region

Mishra, S. K., S. Sahany, and P. Salunke

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 129, 283–296, 2016

Projected Seasonal Mean Summer Monsoon over India and Adjoining Regions for the 21st Century

Dash, S. K., S. K. Mishra, K. C. Pattnayak, A. Mamgain, L. Mariotti, E. Coppola, F. Giorgi, and G. Giuliani

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 122(3-4), 581-593, 2014

AMIP Simulation with the CAM4 Spectral Element Dynamical Core

Evans, K., P. Lauritzen, S. K. Mishra, R. Neale, M. A. Taylor, and J. J. Tribbia

Journal of Climate, 26, 689–709, 2013

Effects of Convective Scale Downdrafts on the Rainfall Simulation in NCAR-CAM3

Sahany S., and S. K. Mishra

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 107, 547-562, 2011

Influence of Convective Adjustment Time Scale on the Tropical Transient Activity

Mishra, S. K.

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 114, 17-34, 2011

Effects of Convective Adjustment Time Scale on the Simulation of Tropical Climate

Mishra, S. K.

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 107(1-2), 211-228, 2011

Sensitivity of Kelvin Waves and Madden-Julian Oscillation to Convective Downdrafts in the NCAR-CAM3

Mishra, S. K., and S. Sahany

Atmospheric Science Letters, 12(3), 281-287, 2011

Performance of the HOMME Dynamical Core in the Aqua-Planet Configuration of NCAR CAM4: Equatorial Waves

Mishra, S. K., M. A. Taylor, R. D. Nair, H. M. Tufo, and J. J. Tribbia

Annales Geophysicae, 29, 221-227, 2011

Evaluation of the HOMME Dynamical Core in the Aqua-Planet Configuration of NCAR CAM4: Rainfall

Mishra, S. K., M. A. Taylor, R. D. Nair, P. H. Lauritzen, H. M. Tufo, and J. J. Tribbia

Journal of Climate, 24, 4037-4055, 2011

Sensitivity of the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and its Interannual Variation to Model Time Step

Mishra, S. K.

Atmospheric Research, 101, 67-77, 2011

Effects of Time Step Size on the Simulation of Tropical Climate in NCAR-CAM3

Mishra, S. K., and S. Sahany

Climate Dynamics, 37(3-4), 689-704, 2011

Sensitivity of the Simulated Precipitation to Changes in Convective Relaxation Time Scale

Mishra, S. K., and J. Srinivasan

Annales Geophysicae, 28, 1827-1846, 2010

The Impact of Time Step on the Intensity of ITCZ in Aquaplanet GCM

Mishra, S. K., J. Srinivasan, and R. S. Nanjundiah

Monthly Weather Review, 136, 4077–4091, 2008