I have been at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences since 2007. My previous experience and interests are available here. My research and teaching should give you an idea of the kind of work I and my students do. I have a few ongoing projects.

Recent publications:

• Dombo, T. C., AchutaRao, K. M., and Sandeep, S. (2023). The link between intertropical convergence zone stagnation and bias in local shortwave cloud radiative forcing over tropical Africa in climate models. Environ. Res. Lett.    Open Access pdf!

• Otto, F. E. L., Zachariah, M., Saeed, F., Siddiqi, A., Kamil, S., Mushtaq, H., et al. (2023). Climate change increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan. Environ. Res. Clim. 2, 25001. doi:10.1088/2752-5295/acbfd5.    pdf

• T, Arulalan., AchutaRao, K., and Sagar, A. D. (2023). Climate science to inform adaptation policy: Heat waves over India in the 1.5°C and 2°C warmer worlds. Clim. Change 176, 64. doi:10.1007/s10584-023-03527-y.    Open Access pdf!

• Shahzad Gani, Pallavi Pant, Sayantan Sarkar, Neha Sharma, Sagnik Dey, Sarath Guttikunda, Krishna AchutaRao, Jostein Nygard and Ambuj Sagar (2022): Systematizing the approach to air quality measurement and analysis in low- and middle-income countries, Env. Res. Lett. 17, 21004. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac4a9e.

• Dileepkumar R., AchutaRao, K. M., Celine Bonfils and Arulalan T. 2021: On the emergence of human influence on surface air temperature changes over India.     J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126, doi:10.1029/2020JD032911.

• Mariam Zachariah, Arpita Mondal, Mainak Das, Krishna Mirle AchutaRao and Subimal Ghosh 2020: On the role of rainfall deficits and cropping choices in loss of agricultural yield in Marathwada, India     Environmental Research Letters (2020)     Open Access pdf

• Singh, R., and K. AchutaRao, 2020: Sensitivity of future climate change and uncertainty over India to performance-based model weighting. Clim. Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02643-y.     pdf

• Mathur, R., AchutaRao, K. A modelling exploration of the sensitivity of the Indias climate to irrigation Clim. Dyn. (2019) doi:10.1007/s00382-019-05090-8    Read online for free!

• Detlef Stammer, Annalisa Bracco, Krishna AchutaRao, Lisa Beal, Nathan Bindoff, Pascale Braconnot, Wenju Cai, Dake Chen, Matthew Collins, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Boris Dewitte, Riccardo Farneti, Baylor Fox-Kemper, John Fyfe, Stephen Griffies, Steven R. Jayne, Alban Lazar, Matthieu Lengaigne, Xiaopei Lin, Simon Marsland, Shoshiro Minobe, Pedro Monteiro, Walter Robinson, Roxy M. Koll, Ryan Rykaczewski, Sabrina Speich, Inga Smith, Amy Solomon, Andrea Storto, Ken Takahashi, Thomas Tonazzo and Jerome Vialard (2019) Ocean climate observing requirements in support of Climate Research and Climate Information Front. Mar. Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00444