Mahendra Nimmakanti

Employment

• Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Project Scientist
  2026 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Research Associate
  2025 - 2026
• Purdue University West Lafayette Visiting Scholar
  2024 - 2025
• National Institute of Technology PhD Research Scholar (Monsoon Variability and Climate modelling)
  2021 - 2025

Education

• National Institute of Technology Rourkela PhD scholar
  2021 - 2025
• Andhra University M tech In Atmosperic Sciences
  2019 - 2021
• Andhra University MSc in Meteorology
  2017 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Missing Summer Westerly Jet Barotropic Governor Effect Explains Climate Models—Observation Discrepancies in the Indian Monsoon Trends
  AGU Advances 2026 DOI: 10.1029/2025AV002173
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• Unraveling the role of land use changes in shaping extreme rainfall in South India
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2026 DOI: 10.1002/qj.70072
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• Stagnation of Atmospheric Circulation Leads to Historically Prolonged Extreme Rainfall Event Over Northwestern India in August 2024
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2025 DOI: 10.1029/2025JD044227
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• Recent decades witness a strong east-west gradient of monsoon precipitation changes over Northern India
  Atmospheric Research 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.108014
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• Contrasting influence of the 1997 and 2015 El Niño on the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of the Southern Hemisphere
  Global and Planetary Change 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104601
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• Recent two decades witness an uptick in monsoon depressions over the northern Arabian Sea
  npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00727-w
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• A case study of deviant El Niño influence on the 2023 monsoon: An anecdote involving IOD, MJO and equivalent barotropic rossby waves
  Climate Dynamics 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00382-024-07273-4
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• Variability of summer monsoon depressions over the Bay of Bengal with special emphasis on El Niño cycle
  Climate Dynamics 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00382-024-07245-8
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• The increased summer monsoon rainfall in Northwest India: Coupling with the Northwestern Arabian Sea warming and modulated by the Silk Road Pattern since 2000
  Atmospheric Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107094
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• A curious case of the Indian Summer Monsoon 2020: The influence of Barotropic Rossby Waves and the monsoon depressions
  Atmospheric Research 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106476
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