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Overview

Sumant Nigam is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology

Sumant Nigam's main topics of research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Their recent publications reflect a range of studies related to climate and atmospheric science:

  • "Atlantic-Pacific Links in Observed Multidecadal SST Variability: Is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation's Phase Reversal Orchestrated by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation?" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "The Full Extent of El Niño's Precipitation Influence on the United States and the Americas: The Suboptimality of the Niño 3.4 SST Index" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Large-Scale Circulation Context for North American West Coast Atmospheric Rivers: Influence of the Subseasonal NPO/WP Teleconnection" (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • "The Chennai Water Crisis: Insufficient Rainwater or Suboptimal Harnessing of Runoff?" (2021, Current Science)
  • "Pacific-North American Teleconnection Tumbles Snowfall Records West of the Cascades during Christmas Week 2021" (2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Sumant Nigam frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable coauthors include Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, Agniv Sengupta, Bin Guan, Hồng Quân Nguyễn, and Justin Hicks.

Their research has been published in various scientific journals, some of the most common venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Current Science
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • On the role of sea surface temperature gradients in forcing low-level winds and convergence in the tropics

    Richard S. Lindzen;Sumant Nigam

  • ENSO, Pacific Decadal Variability, and U.S. Summertime Precipitation, Drought, and Stream Flow

    M. Barlow;S. Nigam;E. H. Berbery

  • The North Pacific Oscillation–West Pacific Teleconnection Pattern: Mature-Phase Structure and Winter Impacts

    Megan E. Linkin;Sumant Nigam

  • A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

    Siegfried Schubert;David Gutzler;Hailan Wang;Hailan Wang;Aiguo Dai

  • Transients and the Extratropical Response to El Niño

    Isaac M. Held;Steven W. Lyons;Sumant Nigam

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part I: Evaluation of historical simulations of continental and regional climatology

    Justin Sheffield;Andrew P. Barrett;Brian Colle;D. Nelun Fernando;D. Nelun Fernando

  • Structure of Interannual-to-Decadal Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Sector

    Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas;James A. Carton;Sumant Nigam

  • Evolution of the North American Monsoon System

    Mathew Barlow;Sumant Nigam;Ernesto H. Berbery

  • Winter and Summer Structure of the Caribbean Low-Level Jet

    Ernesto Muñoz;Antonio J. Busalacchi;Sumant Nigam;Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas

  • Variability of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet: Large Scale Circulation Context and Hydroclimate Impacts

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  • Absorbing Aerosols and Summer Monsoon Evolution over South Asia: An Observational Portrayal

    Massimo Bollasina;Sumant Nigam;K. M. Lau

  • Key role of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in 20th century drought and wet periods over the Great Plains

    Sumant Nigam;Bin Guan;Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas

  • Twentieth-Century Climate Change over Africa: Seasonal Hydroclimate Trends and Sahara Desert Expansion

    Natalie Thomas;Sumant Nigam

  • Analysis Links Pacific Decadal Variability to Drought and Streamflow in United States

    Sumant Nigam;Mathew Barlow;Ernesto H. Berbery

  • ENSO Evolution and Teleconnections in IPCC’s Twentieth-Century Climate Simulations: Realistic Representation?

    Renu Joseph;Sumant Nigam

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

    Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

  • Warm Season Rainfall Variability over the U.S. Great Plains in Observations, NCEP and ERA-40 Reanalyses, and NCAR and NASA Atmospheric Model Simulations

    Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas;Sumant Nigam

  • On the dynamical basis for the Asian summer monsoon rainfall-El Niño relationship

    Sumant Nigam

  • The simulated Indian monsoon: A GCM sensitivity study

    M.J. Fennessy;J.L. Kinter;B. Kirtman;L. Marx

  • Structure of Oceanic and Atmospheric Low-Frequency Variability over the Tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. Part I: COADS Observations

    Sumant Nigam;Horng-Syi Shen

  • Do Stationary Waves Drive the Zonal-Mean Jet Anomalies of the Northern Winter?

    Eric DeWeaver;Sumant Nigam

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Carton
James A. Carton University of Maryland, College Park
Bin Guan
Bin Guan California Institute of Technology
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Mathew Barlow
Mathew Barlow University of Massachusetts Lowell
Rong Fu
Rong Fu University of California, Los Angeles
James L. Kinter
James L. Kinter George Mason University
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Qi Hu
Qi Hu University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles

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