Congratulations

Dr.D.S.Pai, Scientist 'E', Head of LRF Division, Pune received a certificate of Merit Award of the Ministry of Earth Sciences for the year 2009-10. As a mark of recognizing the technical excellence in the Ministry Sciences, Ministry of Earth Sciences gives the certificates of merit to young scientists/engineers who have made significant contribution fructified in the previous year in the field of  Atmospheric Sciences

A brief resume of Dr. D. Sivananda Pai
Born on 7th May, 1967, Dr. D. Sivananda Pai obtained M.Sc (Physics) with first Rank from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam in 1989, M.Tech (Applied Optics) with second Rank from IIT, Delhi in 1993 and Ph.D Degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Pune in 2001.  He is working as Scientist – E and Head of the Long Range Forecasting (LRF) Division of India Meteorological Department (IMD). He is an experienced operational weather forecaster with expertise in the field of long and extended range prediction and has been part of teams that developed several operational LRF models and introduced the new two-stage LRF strategy of IMD for summer monsoon rainfall. He has published more than 35 papers in referred International journals and reports and presented more than 25 papers in seminars/symposia/workshops. Dr. D. S. Pai has made outstanding contribution in the field of monsoon variability and prediction.  His Main research contributions are

• Suggested a mechanism for the inter annual variability of Indian summer monsoon based on diagnostic studies of global and regional climate anomaly patterns (Ph. D. Thesis).
• Developed a statistical model for the operational forecasting of monsoon onset over Kerala.
• Proposed a dynamical mechanism for the weakening of Indian Monsoon-El Nino relationship during the recent decade.
• Reported the non balance between the long wave cloud radiative forcing (LWCRF) and short wave cloud radiative forcing (SWCRF) over the Asian monsoon region using ERBE and ISCCP data.
• Examined the TOA radiation budget over the Asian monsoon region and its inter-annual variability
• Examined the impact of MJO on the intra seasonal variability of the southwest monsoon rainfall over India.

Dr. D. S. Pai is a member of the WMO CBS Expert Team on Extended and Long Range Forecasting.

Dr. D. S. Pai is awarded Certificate of Merit for his outstanding contribution in the field of Atmospheric Sceinces

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                                       Congratulations

 Smt. Madhuri V. Kamble working as Scientific Assistant of O/o DDGM (AGRIMET), IMD, Pune, received Best Employee Award in Group "B"( Non Gazetted Staff ).The official has contributed to research paper entitled 'Normalised difference vegetation indeed analysis for drought monitoring over India'. The results are useful to find out the areas frequently affected by drought which can ultimately be used to take preventive measures against the crop damage and the food insecurity problems of the country. Participated actively in various research projects/programmes on 'Indian Monsoon and agriculture.

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