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Raghavan Krishnan is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in India. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Their work extends into several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Artificial Intelligence, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics that Krishnan explores cover areas such as Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Scientific Computing and Data Management.

Krishnan has contributed to numerous research publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Krishnan include:

  • Monsoons Climate Change Assessment, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Tropical and mid-latitude teleconnections interacting with the Indian summer monsoon rainfall: a theory-guided causal effect network approach, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • Fingerprint of volcanic forcing on the ENSO-Indian monsoon coupling, 2020, Science Advances
  • Dominant patterns of interaction between the tropics and mid-latitudes in boreal summer: causal relationships and the role of timescales, 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Understanding the combined effects of global warming and anthropogenic aerosol forcing on the South Asian monsoon, 2021, Climate Dynamics

Frequent collaborators in Krishnan's research include P. Swapna, Ramesh Vellore, D. C. Ayantika, Manmeet Singh, and N. Sandeep.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region : A Report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India

    R. Krishnan;J. Sanjay;Chellappan Gnanaseelan;Milind Mujumdar

  • WCRP COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX): A diagnostic MIP for CMIP6

    William J. Gutowski;Filippo Giorgi;Bertrand Timbal;Anne Frigon

  • Unusual ocean-atmosphere conditions in the tropical Indian Ocean during 1994

    S. K. Behera;R. Krishnan;T. Yamagata

  • Pacific decadal oscillation and variability of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall

    R. Krishnan;M. Sugi

  • Dynamics of Breaks in the Indian Summer Monsoon

    R. Krishnan;R. Krishnan;C. Zhang;M. Sugi

  • Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India

    Sushma Prasad;A Anoop;N Riedel;S Sarkar

  • Unravelling Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Rapid Warming in the Mountains and Increasing Extremes

    Raghavan Krishnan;Arun B. Shrestha;Guoyu Ren;Guoyu Ren;Rupak Rajbhandari

  • Deciphering the desiccation trend of the South Asian monsoon hydroclimate in a warming world

    R. Krishnan;T. P. Sabin;R. Vellore;Milind Mujumdar

  • Monsoons Climate Change Assessment

    Bin Wang;Michela Biasutti;Michael P. Byrne;Christopher Castro

  • Will the South Asian monsoon overturning circulation stabilize any further

    R. Krishnan;T. P. Sabin;D. C. Ayantika;A. Kitoh

  • Reliability of regional and global climate models to simulate precipitation extremes over India

    Vimal Mishra;Devashish Kumar;Auroop R. Ganguly;J. Sanjay

  • Recent trends and tele-connections among South and East Asian summer monsoons in a warming environment

    B. Preethi;B. Preethi;M. Mujumdar;R. H. Kripalani;R. H. Kripalani;Amita Prabhu

  • Climate Change Over the Himalayas

    T. P. Sabin;R. Krishnan;Ramesh Vellore;P. Priya

  • Internal Feedbacks from Monsoon–Midlatitude Interactions during Droughts in the Indian Summer Monsoon

    R. Krishnan;Vinay Kumar;M. Sugi;J. Yoshimura

  • Monsoon-extratropical circulation interactions in Himalayan extreme rainfall

    Ramesh K. Vellore;Michael L. Kaplan;R. Krishnan;John M. Lewis

  • An overview of studies of observed climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region

    Qing-Long You;Qing-Long You;Guo-Yu Ren;Guo-Yu Ren;Yu-Qing Zhang;Yu-Yu Ren

  • Changes in western disturbances over the Western Himalayas in a warming environment

    R. K. Madhura;R. Krishnan;J. V. Revadekar;M. Mujumdar

  • Projected Climate Change in the Hindu Kush–Himalayan Region By Using the High-resolution Regional Climate Model PRECIS

    Ashwini Kulkarni;Savita Patwardhan;K. Krishna Kumar;Karamuri Ashok

  • Downscaled climate change projections for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using CORDEX South Asia regional climate models

    Jayanarayanan Sanjay;Raghavan Krishnan;Arun Bhakta Shrestha;Rupak Rajbhandari

  • Baiu Rainfall Variability and Associated Monsoon Teleconnections.

    R. Krishnan;M. Sugi

  • Evidence of surface cooling from absorbing aerosols

    R. Krishnan;R. Krishnan;V. Ramanathan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bhupendra Nath Goswami
Bhupendra Nath Goswami Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
Guoyu Ren
Guoyu Ren China University of Geosciences
M. Rajeevan
M. Rajeevan Government of India
Pascal Terray
Pascal Terray Sorbonne University
Karumuri Ashok
Karumuri Ashok King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Qinglong You
Qinglong You Fudan University
Arun Bhakta Shrestha
Arun Bhakta Shrestha International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Andrew G. Turner
Andrew G. Turner University of Reading

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