Education:

Area of Specialization & Interest:

• Clouds and Precipitation Processes, Cloud Radiative Forcing, Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Fog Dynamics.

Professional Careers:

Honors/Awards/Fellowships/Recognitions:

1. 2018 : Qualified the Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Eligibility for Assistant Professor
2. 2015 : Received Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s Research Fellowship for pursuing PhD from Aug 2015 to Aug 2021
3. 2015 : Secured the first position in the M.Sc. degree examination in Meteorology of the Cochin University of Science and Technology held in 2015

Publications :

1. Sneha Sunil and B. Padmakumari. (2024). Optical and Radiative Characteristics of the Lower Part of Cirrus Clouds Over a Rain Shadow Region in South Peninsular India. Pure and Applied Geophysics (2024): 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-024-03466-4.
2. B. Padmakumari, Sanket Kalgutkar, Sneha Sunil, Mahesh Nikam and G. Pandithurai (2022). High temporal variability of solar irradiance due to cloud enhancement effect and its implications over the windward and leeward sides of Western Ghats mountains in peninsular India , Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 232, 105867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2022.105867.
3. Sneha Sunil, B. Padmakumari,G. Pandithurai, Rohit Patel and C.V. Naidu, 2021: Diurnal (24 hours) cycle and Seasonal variability of Cloud Fraction retrieved from a Whole Sky Imager over a complex terrain in the Western Ghats and comparison with MODIS, Atmos. Res. 248, 105180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105180.
4. Sneha Sunil, B. Padmakumari , 2020: High temporal variability of wintertime fog, aerosol & Red-Blue-Ratio using ground-based observations of SW irradiance and sky imagery over a station in Indo-Gangetic Basin: Optical and Radiative characteristics, Atmospheric Environment, 226, 226 (2020) 117382, 1352-2310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117382.
5. Akshaya Nikumbh, B. Padmakumari, Sneha Sunil, 2019: Cloud fraction retrieval and its variability during daytime from ground-based sky imagery over a tropical station in India, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 190, 74–83 https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jastp.2019.05.002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2019.05.002.

Conferences/Seminars/Symposia:

1. Presented the paper entitled ‘Optical and Radiative properties of Cirrus Clouds observed over a Rain Shadow Region’ in the 18th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP 2021) with Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), during 2-6 August 2021.
2. Presented the paper entitled “Retrievals of cloud fraction and its diurnal and seasonal variability over a high altitude station in the Western Ghats using Ground-based Remote sensing technique -Comparison with MODIS” in the Annual Monsoon E-Workshop 2019-2020 and National E-Symposium on “Cloud and Precipitation Processes” held at IITM, Pune, India.
3. Presented a paper entitled “Temporal variability of Cloud Fraction from Ground-based Sky Imagery and comparison with MODIS over a high altitude station in the Western Ghats” in the TROPMET-2019 National Symposium on “Land, Ocean and Atmosphere Interactive Processes in the context of Weather and Climate” organized by the India Meteorological Society during the 11th – 14th December, 2019 at the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra university, Visakhapatnam.
4. Presented the paper entitled “Retrieval of Aerosol properties from Ground-based MFRSR Measurements and Estimation of Forcing Efficiency” in the Conference of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA- 2016) on “Aerosol and Climate Change: Insights and Challenges” during December 6-8, 2016, held at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.

Google Scholar Links:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=uBNuSx8AAAAJ

ORCID:

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2739

Other Professional Activities (Professional Training/Committees/Editorial Services):

1. SMART Training on INSAT 3DR: Observations to Applications during March 7-10, 2017, held at Space Application Center, Ahmedabad, India.
2. NASA-ARSET Training Workshop on Satellite Remote Sensing of Air Quality: Data, Tools and Applications during 23-26 May, 2017 organized at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune- 411008, India.
3. Participated in the 'Winter Fog Field Campaign (WIFEX) 2016-2017 conducted at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), New Delhi.
4. Attended Instrumentation and maintenance training at the High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra during 2016-2019.