National Centre for Earth Science Studies

1. Resmi, E. A., Preethi, B., Ajayamohan, R. S., Ray, P., Unnikrishnan, C. K., Nita, S., Sumesh, R. K., & Dharmadas, J. (2023). Analysis of localized features during wet and dry rainfall episodes over southern tip of India. International Journal of Climatology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8267.
2. Leena P.P., Mercy Varghese, Jithin S. Kumar, V. Anil Kumar, G. Pandithurai, Rohit D. Patil, E.A. Resmi, Thara V. Prabha. Use of multiplatform in-situ observation to study vertical structure and microphysics of clouds during southwest monsoon over Western Ghats, India. Atmospheric Research 290 (2023) 106780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106780
3. Sumesh R K, Resmi E A, Unnikrishnan CK, Dharmadas Jash, Sreekanth, T S, Mol Resmi M C, Rajeevan K, Nita S, Ramachandran K K, 2019, Microphysical aspects of tropical rainfall during Bright Band events at mid and high-altitude regions over Southern Western Ghats, India. Atmospheric Research, 227 178–197. (IF:3.7).
4. Varghese M, Prabha T V., Murugavel P., Anu A.S., Resmi E.A., Dinesh G., Jaya Rao Y., Baban Nagare, Safai P.D., Nair S, Nandakumar K, Vishnu R., Bhavani Kumar Y., 2019, Aerosol and cloud droplet characteristics over Ganges Valley during break phase of monsoon: A case study. Atmospheric Research 220, 125–140. (IF:3.7).
5. Sreekanth T. S., Varikoden H., Mohan Kumar G., and Resmi E. A., 2019, Microphysical Features of Rain and Rain events during different Seasons over a Tropical Mountain location using an Optical Disdrometer. 9:19083 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55583-z.
6. Sathyanadh A., T. V. Prabha, B. Balaji, E. A. Resmi, A. Karipot (2017) Evaluation of WRF PBL parameterization schemes against direct observations during a dry event over the Ganges valley. Atmospheric Research, 193: 125–141, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.02.016.
7. Sumesh R. K., K. Rajeevan, E. A. Resmi and C. K. Unnikrishnan (2017) Particulate Matter Concentrations in the Southern Tip of India: Temporal Variation, Meteorological Influences, and Source Identification. Earth Syst Environ (2017) 1:13 DOI 10.1007/s41748-017-0015-9.
8. Rajeevan K., R. K. Sumesh, E. A. Resmi and C.K Unnikrishnan (2017). An observational study on the variation of black carbon aerosol and source identification over a tropical station in south India. (Atmospheric Pollution Research, In Press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2018.06.009.
9. Prakash Pithani, & Sachin D. Ghude & Thara Prabhakaran & Anand Karipot & Anupam Hazra & Rachana Kulkarni & Subharthi Chowdhuri & E. A. Resmi & Mahen Konwar & P. Murugavel & P. D. Safai & D. M. Chate & Y. Tiwari & R. K. Jenamani & M. Rajeevan. WRF model sensitivity to choice of PBL and microphysics parameterization for an advection fog event at Barkachha, rural site in the Indo-Gangetic basin, India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2530-5.
10. Varghese M., T. V. Prabha, N. Malap, E. A. Resmi, P. Murugavel, P. D. Safai, D. Axisa, G. Pandithurai, K. Dani (2016) Airborne and ground based CCN spectral characteristics: Inferences from CAIPEEX - 2011. Atmospheric Environment, 125: 324-336, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.06.041.
11. Resmi E A., N. Malap, G. Kulkarni, P. Murugavel, S. Nair, R. Burger, T. V. Prabha (2015) Diurnal cycle of convection during CAIPEEX 2011 experiment. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 126: 351–367, DOI:10.1007/s00704-015-1595-7.
12. Nair S., Resmi E A, G. Kulkarni, N. Malap, S. Patade, T. V. Prabha (2015) Thermodynamical and cloud microphysical characteristics during the transition from Southwest to Northeast monsoon. Atmospheric Research, 166: 182-194, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.06.018.
13. Resmi E. A., K. Mohankumar, K. S. Appu (2013) Effect of polar sudden stratospheric warming on the tropical stratosphere and troposphere and its surface signatures over the Indian region. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 105–106: 15-29, DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2013.07.003.

Proceedings / Reports

1. Rajeevan K., R. K. Sumesh, E. A. Resmi (2017), Characteristics of black carbon and its influence on meteorology over a tropical coastal station Thiruvananthapuram, Proceedings of 29th Kerala Science Congress, 04-16: 469-481.
2. CAIPEEX data workshop 2012 (2013) Contributed to: Theme 2: Hygroscopic cloud seeding and randomization, Theme 3: Radar data analysis with TITAN. (http://www.tropmet.res.in/~lip/Publication/Scientific-Reports/SR-15.pdf).
3. CAIPEEX – Final report (2009 – 2011), Phase I-III.

Education:

Professional career:

Research Interests:

Clouds and Convection, Nocturnal convection initiation, Boundary layer dynamics, Aerosol cloud interaction studies.

Field Campaigns Participated:

CAIPEEX Phase III 2015: Aircraft campaign mode operation in Kolhapur.

CAIPEEX Phase III 2013 and 2014: Ganga Basin Experiment over Varanasi in ground and aircraft campaign.

Deputation Abroad :

International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, June 23 - July 4, 2014. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8–13 April 2018.

Memberships:

1. Life Member, Indian Meteorological Society, Pune chapter

Education:

Professional career:

Research Interests:

Interest is in Geodynamics (Seismotectonic), Gravity Inversion, and Geo hazard assessment studies.

Field Work Experience:

1. Field trip to Puttur Gram Panchayat of Thrissur Taluk to conduct a resistivity survey to verify the possibility of landslides in the Chittakunn area, during 6th-7th February 2024.
2. Visited Idukki district, Kerala to gather basic information about past occurred landslides and Landslide-affected locations during 13th to 20th October 2023.
3. Field reconnaissance survey conducted to gather basic information about Landslide-affected locations in Amboori and Ponmudi during 20th to 21st September 2023.
4. Field visit to Varkala sea cliff for studying its erosion characteristics and current status on 18th July 2023.
5. ERT survey was conducted in Calicut urban area during 30th March to 02nd April 2022.
6. Field trip to Landslide affected locations in Koottickal and Kokkayar Villages, Kerala during 1st July to 8th July 2022.
7. Landslide investigation field trip in Peermade Taluk of Idukki District and Kokkayar panchayat of Kottayam District, during 3rd to 12th October 2022.
8. Participated in the 41st Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica as a part of the project entitled “Constraining geodynamic evolution of the princess Elizabeth Land (PEL), East Antarctica (EA) in relation to the Eastern Ghats Belt (EGB), India using geological and geophysical approaches” (Sanctioned by National Centre for Polar and Oceanic Research (NCPOR), Goa), during 18th November 2021 to 09th February 2022.
9. Participated in the construction of Broad band seismic observatory at Kannur, Kerala in 2018, as a part of NCESS core program of establishment of seismic observatories along the western ghats, India.
10. Resistivity survey conducted to find over burden thickness and plane of failure at Amboori on 22 June 2017.
11. Field work was carried out at Panathur, Kasargod by using Inukton under water push camera from 07th to 09th August, 2017.

Training/Conferences:

1. Participating and Presented NCESS scientific materials and posters in the IISF (India International Science Festival), 2023 Faridabad, during 17th to 20th January 2024.
2. Participating and Presented NCESS scientific material to the exhibition conducted by IMD for 149th IMD Foundation Day program at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 14th January 2024.
3. Attended 2nd Indian Near Surface Geophysics Event (International Conference & Exhibition), November 7-8,2023, New Delhi, Pre-conference workshop on Resistivity and Induced Polarization workshop, November 6th, 2023.
4. National Workshop on “Application of Geospatial, Geophysical and Machine Learning Techniques in Landslide Studies” organized by the Department of Geology at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) during 24th to 30th July 2023.
5. Participated in the IISF 2019 (India International Science Festival, Kolkata) as a representative of NCESS during 3rd to 9th Nov 2019.
6. Participated as NCESS representative in the expo at SASTHRA-2019, National Science and Technology Innovation Expo as part of Swasraya Bharat, The Kerala Science Fest 2019, Kochi.
7. Participated in the 1st Indian International Near Surface Geophysics Conference & Exhibition during 28th to 29th November 2019 at New Delhi.
8. Participated as a member of “Mastermind session on Landslides” which was being conducted at NCESS on 10.01.2019.
9. Organized and actively Participated in National conference on " Land disturbance due to soil piping in western Ghat”, held at NCESS on 5th July 2017.
10. Brain storming session held on 24 & 25th May 2017 at NCESS was conducted as prelude for 36th International Geological Congress Society, New Delhi.
11. 3 days Advanced MATLAB Training course at ESSO-NCESS from 26th-28th September 2016.
12. Participated in the workshop on Geodynamic processes and evolution of geophysical fields, tectonics, and climate at IISc Bangaluru from 19th - 23rd September 2016.
13. One-day training program was organized and conducted on COMSOL Multiphysics at NCESS on 27th May 2016.
14. “Brainstorming workshop on Geosciences. Seismology and Deep drilling “organised in NCESS, 4-5 April 2016.
15. Attended Geosoft training program which was indented for Gravity and magnetics studies for the core program Western Ghat evolution studies at NCESS (March 2019).

Publications:

1. Rao, Padma, Krishna Jha, and Thatikonda Suresh Kumar. "A broadband seismological observatory at Larsemann Hills, Antarctica: Noise characteristics and data quality." Polar Science 38 (2023): 100970.
2. Roy, Arka, and Thatikonda Suresh Kumar. "Gravity inversion of 2D fault having variable density contrast using particle swarm optimization." Geophysical Prospecting 69, no. 6 (2021): 1358-1374.
3. Roy, Arka, Thatikonda Suresh Kumar, and Rajat Kumar Sharma. "Structure estimation of 2D listric faults using quadratic Bezier curve for depth varying density distributions." Earth and Space Science 9, no. 2 (2022): e2021EA002061.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Thatikonda Suresh Kumar, Sravan K Kotluri, V Nandakumar (2023). “Geomorphological and Geotechnical characteristics of 2021 landslides and flood in Kerala” in the IGU Diamond Jubilee Annual Convention, 2023, organized by the Indian Geophysical Union (IGU) and the Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, School of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) on November 22-24, 2023, at Kochi, Kerala, India.
2. Padma Rao, B, Thatikonda Suresh Kumar and Krishna, J. (2023). Broadband seismological observatory- Analysis of noise characteristics and crustal structure beneath the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica, National Conference on Polar Science (NCPS), 16-19 May 2023.
3. K M Bhatt, Thatikonda Suresh Kumar, and Arka Roy (2016), “Electromagnetic signal by the ocean dynamics” presented in a seminar, “Developments in Geosciences in the past decade Emerging trends for the future and impact on Society held at IIT KGP.
4. Thatikonda Suresh Kumar, Arka Roy, (2016). “The b-value mapping and seismicity in the vicinity of Sagaing fault in Myanmar region “1st Triennial Congress of FIGA and 53rd Annual Convention of IGU and 34th Annual Convention of AHI “Geosciences for Sustainability”.

Education:

Professional career:

Training:

• Training course on ‘AI for Digital Transformation and Data-Driven Decision Making’ for MOES scientists at INCOIS, ITCOO, Hyderabad, India on November 6th to 9th, 2023.
• Pre-Antarctic Snow-Ice acclimatization training at ITBP Auli, India in connection to the 39th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica on September 10th to October 3rd, 2019.
• India International Science Festival, Lucknow, India on October 5th to 8th, 2018.
• MATLAB training program, NCESS, Thiruvananthapuram, India, September 26th to 30th, 2016.
• ‘Geodynamic processes, evolution of Geophysical fields, Tectonics and Climate’ at IISC Bangalore, September 2016 (1 week).

Achievements & Awards:

1. Scholarship, Recipient of West Bengal Government Scholarship for Higher Education, awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, India.
2. Scholarship, Recipient of Innovation for Scientific Pursuit of Inspire Research (INSPIRE), a National Scholarship awarded by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India for Academic Excellence in Natural Sciences.
3. CSIR- NET, Qualified in the subject PHYSICAL SCIENCES under CSIR fellowship scheme in Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET) held on 17-06-2012.
4. Junior Research Fellow (JRF), Qualified for JRF in IISER Kolkata, Department of Physical Sciences, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
5. Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), Secured All India Rank 78 (with percentile 98.09) conducted by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India.
6. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Secured All India Rank 340 (with percentile 95.46) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT BOMBAY), India.
7. Trainee Scientist position, Qualified for Trainee Scientist in IITM Pune, Centre for Advanced Training, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government. of India./li>
8. MoES (Ministry of Earth Science) travel grant for 27th IUGG General Assembly, 2019, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Memberships:

Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Member, European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Software development:

• SPoDEA: A MATLAB-based GUI for Gravity Inversion for Heterogeneous Sedimentary Basin with b-Spline Polynomial Approximation using Differential Evolution Algorithm. https://github.com/ArkaRoy-Matlab/SPoDEA
• FaultInvPSO: A MATLAB-based GUI for Gravity inversion of 2D Fault having variable density contrast using Particle Swarm Optimization. https://github.com/ArkaRoy-Matlab/Fault_pso
• gravity_forward_3D: A MATLAB-based algorithm for Generalized Gauss-FFT 3D Forward Gravity Modeling for Irregular Topographic Mass having Any 3D Variable Density Contrast. https://github.com/ArkaRoy-Matlab/gravity_forward_3D

Projects:

1. Insights into Indian Ocean Geoid Low: Geodynamic exploration (MoES-Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India).
2. Crustal and mantle structures and geodynamic model of Western Ghats (MoES-Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India).
3. Deep lithospheric structure across shear zones, South India (MoES-Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India).
4. Constraining Geodynamic evolution of Princes Elezabeth Land (PEL), East Antarctica and Eastern Ghats Belt (EGB), India using geological and geophysical approaches.

Education:

Professional career:

Research Interests:

Surface water and groundwater modelling, Machine learning, Catchment Instrumentation, Hydro-geochemistry, Stable Isotopes, and Surface water-ground water interaction.

Honors/Awards/Fellowships/Achievements:

1. Secured 4^th Rank in State Merit List in the Intermediate Examination, Uttar Pradesh Board 2008.
2. Awarded Certificate of Merit by Govt. of Uttar Pradesh 2008.
3. ICTP-Italy Travel grant by MoES.
4. Qualified GATE-2013, AIR-771 (Civil Engineering)

Membership in the Professional bodies:

1. Life Member, Indian Association of Hydrologists, NIH, Roorkee.

Publications:

1. Rajat Kr Sharma, S B Goswami, Sarita tiwari and S C Kar 2015: Evaluation of Daily Rainfall-Runoff Simulations in Narmada River Basin: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 8(3):1123-1132.JULY 2015.
2. Aradhana Yaduvanshi, Rajat Kr Sharma, Sarat C.Kar, Anand K. Sinha: Rainfall-runoff simulations of extreme monsoon rainfall events in a tropical river basin of India: Natural Hazards Nat Hazards (2018) 90: 843
3. K. Sreelash, Rajat Kr Sharma, J.A. Gayathri, B. Upendra, K. Maya and D. Padmalal (Nov, 2018) Impact of rainfall variability on river hydrology: a case study of southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Geological Society of India 92 (5), 548-554
4. K. Sreelash, M. M. Mathew, N. Nisha, P. Arulbalaji, A. G. Bindu, Rajat Kr Sharma (2020): Changes in the hydrological characteristics of Cauvery river draining the eastern side of southern Western Ghats, India, International Journal of River Basin Management, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2020.1719119
5. Roy, A., Kumar, T. S., & Rajat Kr Sharma (2022). Structure estimation of 2D listric faults using quadratic Bezier curve for depth varying density distributions. Earth and Space Science, 9, e2021EA002061. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002061
6. Rajat Kr Sharma, Kumar, S., Padmalal, D. & Roy, A. 2023 Streamflow prediction using machine learning models in selected rivers of Southern India. International Journal of River Basin Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2023.2196635/
7. Vipin T. Raj , J.A. Gayathri , Rajat Kr Sharma, B.L. Redkar , K. Sreelash , D. Padmalal and K. Sajan 2023 Tracing the Sources of River Waters Using Stable I H) in Two Mountainous Watersheds, Southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Geoscience Research, Vol. 8, No.2, July, 2023, pp. 89-99

Reports:

1. Project completion report on National Network Project on Assessment of Regional Hydrological Systems using Space Borne Gravity Observations” Work package: Assimilation of space-borne gravity observation into hydrologic Models. Submitted to DST. Project PI’s – Dr. S.C. Kar and Rajat Kumar Sharma
2. Sharad Jain, Raghavendra Ashrit, Rajat Kr Sharma, Pradeep Mujumdar, and Ashok Das Preparation of recommendations report on Processes and Models for Urban Flood Management as follow-up action of Brainstorming Session on Urban Flood Management (held on 3rd February, 2023, at IISc Bengaluru) , submitted to Ministry of Earth Sciences on June 17, 2023.

External Projects:

1. National Network Project on Assessment of Regional Hydrological Systems using Space Borne Gravity Observations: Work Package: Assimilation of space-borne gravity observation into hydrologic models. Agency – DST, Govt. of India (2019-2023 completed). PI- Dr. S C Kar, and Rajat Kumar Sharma.
2. Estimation of soil water fluxes in the high-altitude mountainous watersheds in Kerala using in-situ observations and modelling Agency- Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, Govt. of Kerala (2022-2025) PI – Dr. Sreelash K and Co-PI -Rajat Kr Sharma.

Conferences Attended & Paper Presented:

1. K Sreelash and Rajat Kumar Sharma. Hydroclimatic trends in Periyar and Netravati river basins, South West India: Implications on sustainable river basin management. 26th Swadeshi Science Congress, 7 – 9 Nov, 2016, CMFRI, Kochi.
2. K Sreelash, Rajat Kumar Sharma, Gayathri J A and Vipin T Raj. (2017). Effect of changes in the land surface and precipitation on the hydrology of small catchment rivers of southern Western Ghats, India. 7th International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Vision-2030, 11-13 Dec, 2017, New Delhi.
3. Anu Patil, Sreelash K, Varija K, Rajat Kumar Sharma: Integrated Surface- Subsurface Hydrological Modelling of a Humid Tropical River Basin: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Conference, 2019 at Singapore. Conference Paper
4. Rajat Kr Sharma, Muddu Sekhar, Padmalal D (2022) Runoff generation processes in the humid tropical catchment of Southern Western Ghats 9th International Groundwater Conference Nov 02-04, 2022, at IIT Roorkee. Conference paper
5. Tiwari, V. M.(1)*; Muppidi, Ravi Kumar; Muddu , Sekhar; Mondal, Nepal C ; Dimri, Ashok P; Panda, Dileep K; Syed, T Hasan; Singh; Chamoli, Ashutosh; Vijayan, Sithartha Muthu; Sharma, Rajat Kumar ; Prasad, P (2023) Rajendra Assessment of Hydrological Systems at Basin Scale using Space Borne Observations, IUGG 2023.
6. Smital Fulzele, Rajat Kr Sharma & Sudhanshu Kumar: Streamflow simulation in a humid tropical catchement of Southern Western Ghats using Hybrid modelling approach 108, Indian Science Congress Association 03-07 January, 2023 at RTM Nagpur University (Accepted)
7. Arka Roy, Rajat Kr Sharma, Dharmdash. A Novel Approach for Unveiling Moho Architecture from Observed Gravity Anomalies by Utilizing Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. AGU 2023.
8. Pratiksha Kumari, Rajat Kr Sharma, Sreelash K. Integrating machine learning and multi-sensor data for accurate soil moisture prediction: A case study from the mountainous catchment in Southern Western Ghats. AGU 2023.

Workshops/Trainings/Meetings:

1. ICTP-IITM-COLA Targeted Training Activities (TTA): "Challenges in Monsoon Prediction" at International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy from 23 Jun 2014 to 4 Jul 2014.
2. Brainstorming Workshop on 'Changing Global Water Cycle and Polar Sciences' organized by MoES at ESSO-NCAOR, Goa from 13-14 April 2016.'
3. INDO-US Bilateral Workshop held at CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad on 'Assessments of Regional Hydrology Using Space-Borne Gravity Observations from 14-16 Nov 2016.'
4. International Conference on Water Challenges in India at New Delhi from 8-9 Feb 2017.
5. 3rd International Conference on Worlds Large Rivers on 'Status and Future of Worlds Large Rivers' organized by BOKU University Austria and NIH, Roorkee at New Delhi from 18-21 April 2017.
6. Participated and presented NCESS Poster in the Scientific Exhibition organized by Ministry of Earth Sciences, at Parliamentary Complex, New Delhi from 26 July to 4 July 2017.
7. Tier II training on "Groundwater Resource Management organized by CGWB 2nd July to 4th July, 2019 at Trivandrum, Kerala.
8. Attended HYDROMET, INDIA Workshop from 13th July, 2020 to 17th July, 2020 organized by VARYSIAN Network, Cambridge England (Virtual).
9. Participated in VAIBHAV-2020 Session (V13H4S3) on "Hydrological models & projections and space-based observations for decision making" on 18th Oct, 2020 organized by CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad (Virtual).
10. International Workshop on "The Joy, Opportunities and Challenges in Field Hydrological Research" Organized by Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, India and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India from 2nd to 6th November 2020(Virtual).
11. Attended 2-day Training on Hydrological Modelling using MIKE-SHE from 3rd Dec to 4th Dec, 2020 organized by DHI, India.
12. Participated in Brainstorming Session on “Satellite Observations and Modelling for Hydrological Applications” on 9th February-2021 organized by CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad (Virtual).
13. Attended Virtual Groundwater modelling workshop using MODFLOW from 14-18 June 2021 organized by NIH, Roorkee (Virtual).
14. Attended two weeks online summer school on machine and deep learning for remote sensing applications from July 06-16, 2021, organized by IEEE, Bangalore, and NIT, Suratkal (Virtual).
15. Attended 2nd annual workshop on Knowledge Guided Machine Learning from Aug 9-11, 2021, organized by University of Minnesota and USGS (Virtual).
16. Attended workshop on "Climate Change adaptation: A spotlight on India" by IIT Delhi on Sept 23, 2021 (Virtual).
17. Attended Virtual National Workshop on "cloud Computing and Hydro-Ecological Modelling for Himalayan Rivers" organized by IIT-Guwahati and CSIR-NBRI on Sept 24, 2021 (Virtual).
18. Coordinated (from NCESS) and participated in workshop on "AI/ML in Earth Sciences" organized by Virtual Center on AI/ML/DL of MoES from 9th May – 10th May 2022 (Virtual).
19. Attended "Brainstorming Session on Urban Flood Management" on 3 Feb, 2023 at IISc, Bangalore, jointly organized by MoES, and IISc, Bangalore. Participated as a member of discussion group on "Processes and models for urban flood management".
20. Attended National Symposium on Convective Storms: Thunderstorms and Lightning Physics on 23 March 2023 organized by NCESS.