National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Education:

Professional career:

1. Scientist B, NCESS (2023 - Present)
2. Project Scientist I (May, 2023 – Sep, 2023) - Arctic Division, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Vasco Da Gama,
   Goa.
3. Research Associate (2021-2023): at Centre Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

Research Interests:

Past, present and future climate modelling.

Monsoonal variability and change

Tropical Indo-pacific drivers, their variability and impacts

Extreme events and background changes.

Awards/Honours/Achievements/Fellowships:

1. Participated in First Indian Scientific Expedition to Canadian Arctic in 2023

2. ERASMUS+ Worldwide Exchange student from April, 2018 to July 2018 at Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

3. Best paper award for the year 2018-2019 in CEOAS for the paper entitled “A PMIP3 narrative of modulation of
   ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon by background changes in the Last Millennium”

4. Qualified CSIR-NET (JRF) in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, 2016.

5. Awarded National Fellowship for Higher Education (NFHE) of ST Students to pursue PhD.

6. Participated in two Scientific ocean cruises (Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal)

Publications:

1. K. Ashok, S. Bidyabati, Tejavath, C. T., and U. Cubasch (2022), Summer monsoon over northeastern India during the last millennium, Int. J. Climatol., 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7332
2. Tejavath, C. T ., K. Ashok, and S. Chakraborty (2021), The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the Mid-Holocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments, Frontiers. Earth. Science. 9, Doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.631310
3. Amat, H. B., M. Pradhan, C. T. Tejavath, A. Dey, A. S. Rao, A. K. Sahai, and K. Ashok (2021), Value addition to forecasting: towards Kharif rice crop predictability through local climate variations associated with Indo-Pacific climate drivers. Theor Appl Climatol, 144, 917-929, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03572-6
4. Tejavath C. T., K. Ashok, and P. Upadhyay (2020), The past climate of the Indian region as seen from the modeling world, Current Science, 119, pp 316-327, doi: 10.18520/cs/v119/i2/316-32
5. Tejavath, C. T., K. Ashok, S. Chakraborty, and R. Rengasamy (2019), A PMIP3 narrative of modulation of ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon by background changes in the Last Millennium. Clim. Dyn., 53: 3445-3461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04718-z
6. Ashok, K, F. Feba and C. T. Tejavath (2019), The Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and ENSO. Mausam, 70(3), 443-452

Book chapters:

Feba F, D. Govardhan, C. T. Tejavath, and Ashok, K. (2021), ENSO Modoki Teleconnections to Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall – A Review, Chapter 4, Indian Summer Monsoon Variability: El Niño teleconnection sand beyond, Editors: Jasti S Chowdary; Anant Parekh; C. Gnanaseelan, (Elsevier pub.)

Conferences/Training/Workshops:

1. Oral and Poster presentation on “The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the MidHolocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments”, PMIP2020 Nanjing (Conference virtual mode). [Oct., 2021]
2. The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the MidHolocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments International Virtual Conference on Earth’s Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future. [Oct., 2020]
3. Oral Presentation titled “The ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon climate through the Last Millennium as simulated by the PMIP3” in 1st PMIP4 conference, Stockholm, Sweden. [Sep., 2017]
4. Conference on “International Workshop on Representation of Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. [Feb., 2017]
5. The Indian Summer Monsoon During Last Millennium” in Tropmet-2016, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. [Dec., 2016]
6. Poster titled “The Indian Summer Monsoon Climate During Last Millennium, As Simulated by the PMIP3”, CLIVAR-2016, Qingdao, China. [Sep., 2016]
7. Two-week workshop on International Training course on “Indian Ocean Dynamics : From the Large scale Circulation to Small scale Eddies and Fronts” INCOIS, Hyderabad, India. [Nov., 2015]