Sneha Sunil

About

I am an atmospheric scientist with a PhD focused on cloud–precipitation processes and monsoon dynamics over the Western Ghats. My research integrates multi-instrument observations, satellite data, and numerical modeling to investigate aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions, boundary layer thermodynamics, and extreme rainfall. I have worked extensively at high-altitude observatories in Mahabaleshwar and Munnar, contributing to the understanding of cloud microphysics, orographic rainfall mechanisms, and improving cloud parameterizations in weather and climate models. My interests also include reanalysis evaluation, cloud radiative effects, and advancing high-resolution modeling using WRF and WRF-Chem frameworks.

Employment

• National Centre for Earth Science Studies Research Associate
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Research Associate
  2023 - 2034
• Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Extended Senoir Research Fellow
  2022 - 2023
• Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Research Fellow
  2015 - 2021

Education

• Andhra University PhD
  2017 - 2022
• Cochin University of Science and Technology MSc. Meteorology
  2013 - 2015
• Mahatma Gandhi University BSc Physics
  2010 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (6)

• Influence of lower and middle tropospheric cloud types and their characteristics on surface solar radiation at a rain shadow region in India
  Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101620
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• Optical and Radiative Characteristics of the Lower Part of Cirrus Clouds Over a Rain Shadow Region in South Peninsular India
  Pure and Applied Geophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00024-024-03466-4
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• High temporal variability of surface solar irradiance due to cloud enhancement effect over the Western Ghat mountains in peninsular India
  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2022.105867
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• Diurnal (24 h) cycle and seasonal variability of cloud fraction retrieved from a Whole Sky Imager over a complex terrain in the Western Ghats and comparison with MODIS
  Atmospheric Research 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105180
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• High temporal variability of wintertime fog, aerosol and Red-Blue-Ratio using ground-based observations of shortwave irradiance and sky imagery over a station in Indo-Gangetic Basin: Optical and Radiative characteristics
  Atmospheric Environment 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117382
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• Cloud fraction retrieval and its variability during daytime from ground-based sky imagery over a tropical station in India
  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2019.05.002
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