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Sulochana Gadgil publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sulochana Gadgil sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 85 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sulochana Gadgil D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sulochana Gadgil sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sulochana Gadgil is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India and works primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Their research focuses on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics addressed in Gadgil's work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Magnetic confinement fusion research, and Superconducting Materials and Applications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gadgil cover various aspects of monsoon behavior, rainfall indices, and climate phenomena. These include:

  • "Normal dates of onset/progress and withdrawal of southwest monsoon over India" (2021, MAUSAM)
  • "A new rain-based index for the Indian summer monsoon rainfall" (2021, MAUSAM)
  • "Meteorological sub-divisions of India: Assessment of coherence, homogeneity and recommended redelineation" (2021, MAUSAM)
  • "From minimum-viable-products to full models: a step-wise development of diagnostic forward models in support of design, analysis and modelling on the ST40 tokamak" (2024, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion)
  • "On rogue La Niñas, with below-average monsoon rainfall" (2023, Journal of Earth System Science)

Gadgil frequently collaborates with several researchers, among whom the most frequent are:

  • P. A. Francis
  • Ravi S. Nanjundiah
  • PAI D. S.
  • Arti Bandgar
  • DEVI SUNITHA

Their scholarly contributions are often published in journals such as MAUSAM, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, and the Journal of Earth System Science, with multiple papers in MAUSAM highlighting a focus on meteorological and environmental topics.

Best Publications

  • The Indian monsoon and its variability

    Sulochana Gadgil

  • On the Maximum Cloud Zone and the ITCZ over Indian, Longitudes during the Southwest Monsoon

    D. R. Sikka;Sulochana Gadgil

  • Improved Weather and Seasonal Climate Forecasts from Multimodel Superensemble

    T. N. Krishnamurti;C. M. Kishtawal;Timothy E. LaRow;David R. Bachiochi

  • Multimodel Ensemble Forecasts for Weather and Seasonal Climate

    T. N. Krishnamurti;C. M. Kishtawal;Zhan Zhang;Timothy LaRow

  • Active and break spells of the Indian summer monsoon

    M. Rajeevan;Sulochana Gadgil;Jyoti Bhate

  • Ocean–atmosphere coupling over monsoon regions

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. V. Joseph;N. V. Joshi

  • Extremes of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, ENSO and equatorial Indian Ocean oscillation

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. N. Vinayachandran;P. A. Francis;Siddhartha Gadgil

  • Monsoon precipitation in the AMIP runs

    S. Gadgil;S. Sajani

  • BOBMEX: The Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment

    G. S. Bhat;S. Gadgil;P. V. Hareesh Kumar;S. R. Kalsi

  • On breaks of the Indian monsoon

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. V. Joseph

  • Monsoon prediction : Why yet another failure?

    Sulochana Gadgil;M Rajeevan;Ravi Nanjundiah

  • Intense rainfall events over the west coast of India

    P. A. Francis;Sulochana Gadgil

  • Droughts of the Indian summer monsoon: Role of clouds over the Indian Ocean

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. N. Vinayachandran;P. A. Francis

  • The Asian monsoon — agriculture and economy

    Sulochana Gadgil;K. Rupa Kumar

  • The monsoon system: Land–sea breeze or the ITCZ?

    Sulochana Gadgil

  • Use of climate information for farm-level decision making: rainfed groundnut in southern India

    Sulochana Gadgil;P.R Seshagiri Rao;K Narahari Rao

  • Monsoon variability: links to major oscillations over the equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans

    Sulochana Gadgil;M. Rajeevan;P. A. Francis

  • On forecasting the Indian summer monsoon: The intriguing season of 2002

    Sulochana Gadgil;J. Srinivasan;Ravi S. Nanjundiah;K. Krishna Kumar

  • First results from a new observational system over the Indian seas

    K Premkumar;M Ravichandran;Kalsi;Debasis Sengupta

  • Intraseasonal Variation of the Summer Monsoon I:Observational Aspects

    Sulochana Gadgil;G Asha

  • The Indian monsoon: 1. Variations in space and time

    Sulochana Gadgil

Frequent Co-Authors

P. N. Vinayachandran
P. N. Vinayachandran Indian Institute of Science
Madhav Gadgil
Madhav Gadgil Indian Institute of Science
M. Rajeevan
M. Rajeevan Government of India
M. Ravichandran
M. Ravichandran Ministry of Earth Sciences
Suryachandra A. Rao
Suryachandra A. Rao Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Peter J. Webster
Peter J. Webster Georgia Institute of Technology
T. N. Krishnamurti
T. N. Krishnamurti Florida State University
Allan R. Robinson
Allan R. Robinson Harvard University
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba

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